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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2019
An Arab leadership within the Third World has been emerging since 1973. Since that year, major diplomatic initiatives on a wide range of issues relevant to the third World have in fact originated from the Arabs. Countries of the Third World are basically producers of raw materials and other primary commodities. The whole struggle for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) has to some extent been led by the Arabs. Some Third World causes have been championed by some Arab countries, and have been pushed by them into the main arenas of international diplomacy. Algeria virtually initiated the raw materials debate at the United Nations in 1974. This was followed by the special session of the General Assembly in 1975. The 1970s witnessed the beginning of a serious consideration of the issue of restructuring the world economy.
1 This article has been greatly stimulated by my close intellectual interaction with Professor Ali A. Mazrui over the last fifteen years. I am deeply indebted to his varied and wide-ranging writings on African-Arab relations especially (not exclusively) the following sources: Mazrui, Ali A., A World Federation of Cultures: An African Perspective (New York, USA: The Free Press, 1976)Google Scholar; Africa's International Relations: The Diplomacy of Dependency and Change (London and Boulder, Colorado: Heinemann and Westview Press, 1977); and “The Barrel of the Gun and the Barrel of Oil in the North-South Equation,” Alternatives, vol. 3, no. 4 (1978), pp. 455-79.
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