ifda dossier 74 - Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

state, on the other hand, such a global authority would deprive the South of the
prerogatives of sovereignty which constitutes in irreplaceable safeguard against the
danger of deepening dependency and deprivation. There is still a huge theoretical
vacuum concerning the impact on the world economy of the use and abuse of
parts of the pliinet not protected by the sovereignty of any specific state. This
applies not only to the seas and oceans, threatened by pollution, with invaluable
species of fauna and flora exposed to extinction and non-renewable resources to
depletion, but also io outcr space, now accessible thanks to modern technology.
Organized global crime, drug production and traffic, international terrorism take
tidvaniiige of such loopholes. How can these problems be resolved and conflict in
;l world still marked by scarcity and need avoided without some form of global
authority'! Hut, then, who will set the rules of the game? To what extent can one
talk. in the now prevailing global conditions, of a global civilizalional identity, the
basis of global citizenry?
Mechanisms of dependency represent the main threat to Third World national
states in the context of this new international division of labour, not only
char;icterizecl by growing internationaliziition of production, but also by increasing
unevenness in development and inequality in exchange, which has produced
aberrations ol' the magnitude of today's Third World debt. If scu-relinnce comes
up against ever more formidable challenges and inleginlion into greater units is
becoming a prerequisite for surviv;il, collective self-reliance seems to be the most
appropriate form of complen~entarity for societies where the achievements of
independence and the inevitability of interdependence are reconciled, not made
mutually exclusive.
ifda dossier 74 materials received for publication
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Regional space
Chaldeans Mensah, Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries: Concept
and Modalities (Dept of Pol Science, Tory 10-1 1, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2H4,
Canada) 23pp.
R.G. Narnbiar and Rajesh Mehta, Can the Developing Economies Afford to Liberalise
the Trade? (Res & Info System for the Non-Aligned and Other Dev Countries, 40-B
Lodhi estate, New Delhi 110 003, India) 10pp.
Tsudi Wa Kibuti Marnu-Lo, L'Afriqiie noire embourbee (ISDR MBEO, BP 8251,
Kinshasa 1, Zaire) 9pp.
Global space
Michel Rogalski, Vers line economic de paix: Slogan ou strategic? (EHESSICNRS,
54 Bd Raspail, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France) 29pp.