The United States and the Third World

A Basis for Accommodation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4453603
AutoresTom J Farer (autor de correspondencia)
Año1975
Volumen54
Número1
Páginas79
Fecha de publicación1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20039556
OpenAlexW2553218355
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

THE United States has passed in the last decade from the United Nation's most influential state into position of accelerating isolation as it confronts very large proportion of the member states over long agenda of contemporary issues. This is truly novel development, one which threatens to poison international relations at time that shrieks with the need for uniquely broad essays in interna tional cooperation. Three issues shape what may be called the North-South confronta tion. One is the question of how global income and wealth and deci sion-making authority with respect to international economic prob lems should be distributed. A second issue is the attitude of the United States toward the two white-supremacist regimes in Southern Africa. And the third is the U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although each issue represents distinct axis of confrontation, they are linked by single world view, kind of ideology, which imparts to them an in tense emotional coherence. That ideology is not, as suggested recently by Ambassador Moynihan, socialist, unless one follows Durkheim in defining socialism not as political program but rather as a cry of pain. It does indeed incorporate certain themes which recur in British socialist thought, just as it patches in number of convention ally liberal ideals such as self-determination. But socialist and liberal fragments are reshaped by special historical experience to produce in practice distinct amalgam which can most usefully be described as the developing states in fact describe it: anticolonialism

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