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Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development
The Emergence of the NIEO Ideology
Craig Murphy
This study traces the political history of the ideas underlying Third World calls for a New International Economic Order. Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book shows that NIEO ideology has a direct, unbroken line of development extending back to World War II, when a "new international economic order," the Bretton Woods system, was created. Dr. Murphy maintains that NIEO ideology is not rooted only in Third World acceptance of Prebisch's views on trade; rather, it evolved from Third World attempts to cope with problems and opportunities that emerged as the Bretton Woods system was created, operated, and began to break down. By the 1970s, the ideology had become a complex and coherent analysis of the economic position of Third World states, including a political analysis of how Third World views could be made dominant.
Many of Dr. Murphy's conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom about the Third World position of the NIEO. In addition, his study offers insight into the relatively unexplored area of how changes in political and social consciousness affect international systems, and provides grounds on which officials from both the South and the North can see the others' views as less alien.
Craig Murphy is assistant professor of political science at Wellesley College. He is the author of numerous journal articles in International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, and The Legion Observer (in Ghana).
First published 1984 by Westview Press, Inc.
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This book began as a doctoral dissertation in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My advisor, Andrew Scott, both suggested the original idea and gave me help throughout my doctoral research. The other members of my dissertation committee, Enrique Baloyra, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Fredrico Gil, and Jeffrey Obler, provided me with detailed comments and suggestions. I also received suggestions and support from other graduate students working on dissertations in international relations at the same time, Bobby Childress, Tom Havener, Roseanne Lipe, and especially Doug Nelson. Paul Streeten and Margaret de Vries generously answered my initial naive questions about the workings of the Bretton Woods institutions. The documents librarians at the University of North Carolina and at Wesleyan University constantly found ways to make my research easier. Elizabeth Grover, the secret reason why so many of the political science faculty at the Johns Hopkins University write well, did much more than type my dissertation.
Ernst Haas, Jeffrey Hart, Stephen Krasner, Wentworth Ofuatey-Kodjoe, and two anonymous reviewers read and commented on my manuscript as I rewrote it. My senior colleague at Wellesley College, Linda Miller, gave me moral support throughout the process. The editors of International Studies Quarterly helped me refine arguments that appear in as well as in an article in their journal, "What the Third World Wants: An Interpretation of the Development and Meaning of the NIEO Ideology," vol. 27 (March 1983): 54-76.
My sister, Claire Wilhelm, and parents, Arthur and Florence Murphy, encouraged me throughout the whole project. JoAnne Yates, my wife, tried valiantly to give me some of her writing skills. She succeeded, instead, in giving me much more.
Craig Murphy