Overview
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation. The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives situates the NIEO within the interregnum of the 1970s, addressing its core features, intellectual antecedents, contradictions, absences, and afterlives. Particular attention is paid to the role of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) alongside the G-77 and UNCTAD. The book traces the orchestrated United States' opposition to the NIEO and the growth of neoliberalism at the end of the 1970s before discussing some of the NIEO’s many afterlives. It argues that analysing, translating, and adapting the NIEO is important for any re-envisioning of emancipatory global economic, political, and social relations today. Using a mixture of documentary and archive material, The New International Economic Order will be of interest to students and researchers in diplomatic history, international relations, development studies, and sociology. It brings together a large number of themes that are not usually considered together in the existing literature, combining theory and empirics in innovative ways.
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Author: Paul Stubbs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781032767673
ISBN 10: 1032767677
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 05 September 2025
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Format: Hardback
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Reviews
In this elegantly written and rigorously argued book, Paul Stubbs offers a compelling retrospective insight into a significant push from the Global South for a “new international economic order” in the 1970s. Stubbs engages in an in-depth inquiry into the NIEO, its intellectual history and origin, its contents and contradictions, and the contestations around it. Beyond a historical inquiry, Stubbs offers an insightful take on how we may re-envision NIEO in our contemporary context and the pursuit of global emancipatory struggles. The book is a significant intervention in the retrospective glance at the NIEO and lessons to be learnt from it, its strengths and weaknesses. I warmly endorse the book to a broad range of readers. Jimi O. Adesina South African Research Chair in Social Policy University of South Africa, Pretoria Paul Stubbs' The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives provides a thorough assessment of a political dream that emerged out of the Third World Project, living and dying with that Project, and now being revived here and there, somewhere between nostalgia and hope. A reimagination of the global order is absolutely necessary and such a vision is slowly taking shape. Books such as this will participate in the making of that new, perhaps more just, system. Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Santiago, Chile This ground-breaking book offers an extremely full account of the architecture of complexity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Offering uncompromising historical analysis, Paul Stubbs’ deep interrogation of the political, economic and cultural assemblage that stood, in the 1970s and 1980s, behind its emergence goes far beyond addressing only the past potentiality of this counter-hegemonic worldmaking project. Suggestively hinting at the voids left behind during its initial iteration, this book compellingly shows what a ‘new’ NIEO could and should entail. Jure Ramšak Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia Paul Stubbs has written a timely book that provides historical insights into ongoing debates about the reform of global economic governance systems skewed, since inception, against the South. The book will appeal to historians who will appreciate the rich archival sources, while scholars of development studies, international relations, development economics, and political science will find the centring of key themes, figures, and the analysis of the alter lives and afterlives of the NIEO appealing. Overall, anyone interested in these issues will appreciate the book’s skilful demonstration of the unending colonisation of the South covering themes that remain as relevant today as they were then. Geraldine Sibanda University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Author Information
Paul Stubbs is Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. His research focuses on the anthropology of policy; left-green municipalism; international actors in social policy; and the history of socialist Yugoslavia. He edited 'Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political and Economic Imaginaries' (2023).
