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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009
Professor Krasner's article ‘Third World vulnerabilities and global negotiations’ in the October issue of the Review (Vol. 9, no. 4) is an attempt to provide an alternative way of thinking about the North-South dialogue. The central thesis is that Third World states are concerned with power rather than wealth; that politics and not economics is the overriding determinant of their motivation in seeking changes in the international economic order, Krasner therefore urges Northern states to approach global negotiations with caution and to begin discussions only in those limited areas seen as capable of satisfying mutual economic interests. Indeed Krasner's article reads like a policy document; a paper prepared to catch the eye of the Reagan administration perhaps? Underpinning his analysis is the notion of Third World vulnerability. It is the internal and external vulnerability of these regimes, we are told, which best explains their policy positions.
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