During the first few years of the 2020s, it has become increasingly difficult to talk about the future of the Middle East and Africa without eliciting the topic of great-power competition. While these regions have long been subject to the actions of external powers, the rise of China has transformed development options and skylines across…
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable 15-23 on Franczak, Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s
The reviewers in this forum agree that Michael Franczak’s Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s is a “well researched” book that offers a “skillful synthesis,” as William Glen Gray puts it, of US approaches toward Third World efforts at global economic reform in the 1970s. Franczak’s analysis begins with the campaign for…