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African and Arab States and the Call For a New International Economic Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

Omari H. Kokole
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An Arab leadership within the Third World has been emerging since 1973. Since that year, major diplomatic initiatives on a wide range of issues relevant to the third World have in fact originated from the Arabs. Countries of the Third World are basically producers of raw materials and other primary commodities. The whole struggle for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) has to some extent been led by the Arabs. Some Third World causes have been championed by some Arab countries, and have been pushed by them into the main arenas of international diplomacy. Algeria virtually initiated the raw materials debate at the United Nations in 1974. This was followed by the special session of the General Assembly in 1975. The 1970s witnessed the beginning of a serious consideration of the issue of restructuring the world economy.

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Focus: Afro-Arab Relations
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African Issues , Volume 13 , 1984 , pp. 14 - 19
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1984 

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Notes

1 This article has been greatly stimulated by my close intellectual interaction with Professor Ali A. Mazrui over the last fifteen years. I am deeply indebted to his varied and wide-ranging writings on African-Arab relations especially (not exclusively) the following sources: Mazrui, Ali A., A World Federation of Cultures: An African Perspective (New York, USA: The Free Press, 1976)Google Scholar; Africa's International Relations: The Diplomacy of Dependency and Change (London and Boulder, Colorado: Heinemann and Westview Press, 1977); and “The Barrel of the Gun and the Barrel of Oil in the North-South Equation,” Alternatives, vol. 3, no. 4 (1978), pp. 455-79.

2 See Law, John, Arab Aid: Who Gets It, For What, And How (New York, USA: Chase World Information, 1978)Google Scholar.

3 Hossein G. Askari, “OPEC and International Aid: An Appraisal,” SAIS Review (The Johns Hopkins University), Winter 1981-82, No. 3, pp. 133-48.

4 See Sylvester, Anthony, Arabs and Africans: Cooperation and Development (London: Bodley Head, 1981).Google Scholar

5 See Spero, Joan E., The Politics of International Economic Relations (New York, USA: St. Martin's Press, 1981)Google Scholar; and Cosgrove, Carol Ann, Europe and Africa: From Association to Partnership (Farnborough, Hants [U.K.]: Saxon House, 1978).Google Scholar

6 Carol A. Cosgrove, Africa and Europe.

7 See Feld, Werner J., The European Community in World Affairs (Port Washington, New York: Alfred Publishing Co., 1976), pp. 105-6Google Scholar; and Zartman, I. William, The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971)Google Scholar, chapters 1 and 2.