1st Edition

Positive Sum Improving North-South Negotiations

Edited By I. William Zartman Copyright 1987
314 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

The claims of the developing countries for more equal participation in existing international economic arrangements have been eclipsed temporarily by global economic recession and the pressures on developing countries to adjust their economies to radically changed circumstances. But negotiations between the industrial countries of the North and the developing countries of the South will remain an... Read more
1. Introduction: Explaining North-South Negotiations, 2. Commodity Bargaining: The Political Economy of Regime Creation, 3. The United Nations Committee of the Whole: Initiative and Impasse in North-South Negotiations, 4. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea: North-South Bargaining on Ocean Issues, 5. The Wheat Negotiations: Loss or Gain in North-South Relations? 6. The Multifiber Arrangement: The Third Reincarnation, 7. The World Administrative Radio Conference 1979 Negotiations: Toward More Equitable Sharing of the Global Radio Resources, 8. Negotiating the Lomé Conventions: A Little Is Preferable to Nothing, 9. Debt Negotiations and the North-South Dialogue, 1974-1980, 10. Conclusions: Importance of North-South Negotiations

Biography

William I. Zartman