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Book SynopsisIn Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s, Michael Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony over an international economic order under attack abroad and lacking support at home. The goal of the nations that supported NIEO was to negotiate a redistribution of money and power from the global North to the global South. Their weapon was control over the major commoditiesin particular oilthat undergirded the prosperity of the United States and Europe after World War II.
Using newly available archival sources, as well as interviews with key administration officials, Franczak reveals how the NIEO and North-South dialogue negotiations brought global inequality to the forefront of US national security. The challenges posed by NIEO became an inflection point for some of the greatest economic,
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This insightful account is marked by energetic prose and careful research, providing a fresh perspective on an often-overlooked aspect of American foreign policymaking.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Food Power and Free Markets
2. North-North Dialogues: The NIEO and Transatlantic Relations
3. Neoconservatives and the NIEO at the United Nations
4. Interdependence, Development, and Jimmy Carter
5. Debt, Development, and Human Rights: The Dialogue in Latin America
6. Basic Needs and Appropriate Technology
7. The Reagan Revolution and the End of the North-South Dialogue
Epilogue
