The main role of an elite school is to produce future leaders and this paper examines how four elite schools in different parts of the Global South are engaging in this process. Despite the critiques of global citizenship education (GCE) being a vestige of the colonial project, we analyse closely how it is being actively and productively…

Summarizes the proposed New International Economic Order, tracing its origins and interpretations. Examines options available for different groups of developing countries and for certain industrialized states and explores avenues for furthering common interests, countering hidden biases, and avoiding conflicts. (RH)

This publication examines global problems facing the United States and offers a specific short-term program of action to deal with some of the problems. There are three major parts. Part I describes political and economic developments in both rich and poor countries and comments on the recent record of the United States in its relationships with…

This publication contains two papers each of which deals with the relationship between "North" (developed nations) and the "South" (developing nations). The publication is one in a series of working papers commissioned by the World Order Models Project in its effort to stimulate research, education, dialogue, and political…

This paper provides an analytical look at the evolving relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. The author explores the prospects for international security and advocates a number of policies which would benefit both societies. The first section in the booklet discusses how U.S. security cannot be assured even if the Congress…

The need for international cooperation to prevent problems which might be caused by the dependence of some nations on others for technological information is discussed. Barriers against such cooperation are enumerated, accompanied by a list of conditions which might prevent "information dependence" at the national and international levels. A…

Discusses the new Pacific dominance in world affairs and the many economic and human "bridges" to the Pacific Rim. (GEA)

Acknowledging global interdependence, especially in economics, may be the most important step toward resolving international conflicts. Describes seven major global dangers and gives scenarios for exploring likely global futures. As "tools of prescription" these global models are inadequate, but as "tools of analysis" they have…

Examines the role of the mass media in the issues debated in the Brandt report, a document prepared in England which advocates economic interdependence between developing and developed nations. In addition to informing the public, the media should play a supporting role in development education in schools and colleges. (JJD)

The market-oriented countries of Pacific Asia have been contributing to economic growth in the industrialized West. The market developing countries of East Asia have averaged economic growth of 7.5 percent a year over the last 20 years. The most prominent feature of their economic development has been rapid growth in manufactured exports, expanded…

In order for genuine world peace to have a chance, communications professionals must consider a certain genre of communication--largely nonverbal and at a macroscopic level. There can be no lasting world peace where there is no world-wide principle of economic justice. The people of the industrialized power structures (seats of multinational…

Important changes are taking place in the world economy which are not adequately dealt with by either Keynesian or monetarist theories. Too much emphasis placed on what is happening in the American and western European economies can blind us to important developments in such nonwestern economies as the OPEC nations. (IS)

The growing differences between rich and poor nations effects the world's poor more immediately, but rich countries are vulnerable to resultant problems. This article faults American educational systems for not adequately addressing the nature of global dilemmas or their solutions. (DF)

Reviews efforts of the United Nations to promote better international economic relations through special conferences and meetings of the General Assembly during the 1970s. Topics included agricultural development, industrialization, and world commodity trade. (AV)

Discusses the importance of developing skills for the management of technology transfer from developed to less-developed countries. Improving the capacity to manage technology transfer between European and Asian countries is also discussed. (HM)