U.S. Foreign Policy And The New International Economic Order

Robert K. Olson is a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer and a former official of the U.S. Department of State. He was directly involved in the early stages of the negotiations described in this book and recently spent two years at the University of Oxford studying the diplomatic processes for global problem solving.

• Preface -- Introduction -- U.S. Policy and the Third World: The Postwar Era -- The North-South Dialogue: Phase 1 -- The Road to Manila -- UNCTAD V: A Case Study of Negotiations -- Summer 1979: Full Circle -- Rude Awakening -- Toward Preservation of the Interantional Order -- Conclusions