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About this book
Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and economic crises.
At the Global South's request for a New International Economic Order, the Brandt Commission, chaired by Willy Brandt, was appointed in 1977. The commission, with a goal to formulate arguments on how to close the gap between the North and South, developed a planetary perspective grounded in economic redistribution, ecological considerations, and disarmament. The multinationals, at that time, a new kind of business corporation, repressed Brandt's vision by seeking freedom from political monitoring. This book discusses the ways that global corporations created facts that changed the world and the preconditions of politics. It moves beyond existing research that considers the competition merely a theoretical clash between Keynesianism and neoliberalism.
Featuring a thorough analysis of the decades' trends and a new interview with Shridath Ramphal, the Commission's unofficial vice chair, this is a timely volume for students and researchers of international relations, political science, and contemporary history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction. The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s
- 2 Development vs. Dependency
- 3 Distorters of Development: The Multinational Corporations
- 4 The G77 and the NIEO: The Contours of a New World Order
- 5 The Great Transformation of the 1970s and 1980s
- 6 A Commission Against World Poverty
- 7 A Commission for a New World Order
- 8 Proposal for a New Keynesian World Order but Where Are the Multinationals?
- 9 Cancún: From Utopia to Apology. The Opening towards a Neoliberal Global Market Order
- 10 The Follow-up Commissions for Planetary Policies and the Final Farce
- 11 The Brandt Commission and the Global Corporations Today
- 12 Planetary Perspectives: One World to Share. An Interview with Shridath Ramphal
- Index