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This is an up-to-date, authoritative account of the development of U.S. policy toward the New International Economic Order Nieo from its inception in 1974 through the Eleventh Special Session of the General Assembly in August-September 1980. Mr. Olson concentrates on the latter stages of the North-South dialogue, analyzing U.S. policy in the conte

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. U.S. Policy and the Third World: The Postwar Era -- U.S. Interests and the Postwar World -- The Seventies: The System in Crisis -- The 1973 Oil Crisis and Negotiations -- The Assault from the Third World -- Recapitulation -- 2. The North-South Dialogue: Phase 1 -- From Confrontation to Negotiation -- The Seventh Special Session of the UNGA -- The Paris Conference on International Economic Cooperation (CIEC) -- UNCTAD IV -- The Common Fund Negotiations -- 3. The Road to Manila -- The International Wheat Agreement (IWA) -- Fourth G-77 Ministerial Conference at Arusha -- The Common Fund Negotiations -- U.S. Policy in a "New Era -- 4. UNCTAD V: A Case Study of Negotiations -- Interdependence -- Trade -- Monetary and Financial Issues -- Transfer of Technology -- Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries (ECDC) -- The Least Developed Countries -- Summary -- Conclusions -- 5. Summer 1979: Full Circle -- The Uninvited Guest: Oil -- Tokyo: The Energy Summit -- World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD) -- UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) -- The Havana Conference: The Sixth Non-Aligned Summit -- Summary -- 6. Rude Awakening -- Afghanistan -- UNIDO III -- Unfinished Business -- Toward Global Negotiations -- Congressional Lag -- The Venice Summit -- The Eleventh Special Session -- 7. Toward Preservation of the International Order -- Permanent U.S. Interests -- Permanent Interests and the NIEO -- Who Makes U.S. Policy? -- Negotiating the NIEO -- Looking Ahead -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The author advocates a more unified Western response to the peace process. However, since the Gulf War both Europe and the United States have gone their own mutually exclusive ways, the United States with the Madrid/post-Oslo process, Europe with the twenty-seven-nation Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Agreements signed in Barcelona in 1995. This is bad for the peace process and Western relations and ignores the importance of Western cooperation in meeting future economic and political conflicts in the Mediterranean area.

Lebanon is the most recent example of an all too frequent modern tragedy, the small nation rent by internal division and external intervention: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Uganda. And as with all tragedies, the agony is both unique and universal.Understandably, Americans are deeply troubled by the latest chapter in Lebanon's ordeal, for we have a religious, moral, political, and, for millions of Lebanese-Americans, profound familial investment in the country. America's involvement is older by far than the modern state of Lebanon, having originated in the early nineteenth century and grown stronger with American relief efforts during the Christian-Druse battles of 1860 and the establishment of the Syrian Protestant College (now the American University of Beirut) in 1864.