ABSTRACT

This textbook analyzes eight crucial foreign policy decisions of the 1970s and 1980s, emphasizing how decision-making is influenced by the social characteristics of Third World states and their position in the global system. Chapter 1 situates the Third World in the global system and traces the evolu

chapter 1|38 pages

Coming of Age Against Global Odds

The Third World and Its Collective Decision-Making

chapter 2|22 pages

Foreign Policy Decision-Making Theory and the Third World

Payoffs and Pitfalls

chapter 3|26 pages

The Political Economy of Decision-Making in African Foreign Policy

Recognition of Biafra and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

chapter 4|26 pages

The Glory That Was?

The Pan-Arab, Pan-Islamic Alliance Decisions, October 1973

chapter 5|25 pages

The Primacy of Politics

Comparing the Foreign Policies of Cuba and Mexico