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Towards an Empirically-Based New International Economic Order*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Edward McWhinney*
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University
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The movement on behalf of a new international economic order emerged in the early 1970’s and achieved an early, signal success with three great ventures in international lawmaking by the United Nations General Assembly in 1974 and 1975. These were the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States. All three acts were adopted in the form of General Assembly resolutions, the first two by consensus and without formal vote, at the Sixth Special Session of the General Assembly. The Resolution on the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, being pushed to a vote at the succeeding regular Annual Session, was adopted by 120 to 6, with 10 abstentions (with the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany among the negative votes, and France, Italy, Japan, and Canada among the abstentions).

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Notes and Comments / Notes et commentaires
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1990

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Footnotes

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Principles of a New International Economic Order: A Study of International Law in the Making. By Jerzy Makarczyk. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1988. Pp. 367 (U.S. $105.00); Questions of International Law: Hungarian Perspectives, Volume 4. Edited by Hanna Bokor-Szegö. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1988. Pp. 266.

References

1 See the present author’s study, “The International Law-Making Process and the New International Economic Order,” 14 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 57 (1976).

2 Bedjaoui, , Pour un nouvel ordre économique international(1979) (English-language translation, Towards a New International Economie Order (1979)), reviewed by the present author, 18 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 396 (1980).Google Scholar

3 Makarczyk, 36 et seq.

4 Ibid., 53 et seq.

5 Ibid., 135, citing Friedmann, , “Droit de coexistence et droit de coopération,6 Revue Beige de Droit International (1970)Google Scholar.

6 Makarczyk, , 216, citing García-Amador, , “The Proposed New International Economic Order: A New Approach,12 Lawyer of the Americas 9 (1980)Google Scholar.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid., 9.

9 Ibid., 83.

10 Ibid., 125.

11 Bedjaoui, 157.

12 Makarczyk, 155–57, 186.

13 Bedjaoui, 236 et seq.

14 See, for example, Case Concerning Certain German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia, (Jurisdiction), P.G.I.J., Series A/B, No. 16 (1925); ibid., (Merits), No. 18 (1926); Case Concerning the Factory at Chorzáw, (Claim for Indemnity), (Jurisdiction), P.C.I.J., Series A/B, No. 21 (1927); ibid., (Merits), No. 32 (1928) ; Makarczyk, 269–72.

15 See, for example, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company case, (Jurisdiction), I.C.J. Reports 1952, p. 93; Makarczyk, 276–87.

16 Makarczyk, 255 et seq.

17 Ibid., 270–72, 286–87.

18 Ibid., 269–72, 276–87.

19 Ibid., 311, 314, 319.

20 Ibid., 334–35

21 Bokor-Szegö, op. cit.

22 Ibid., 13, 19–20.

23 Ibid., 143–49.

24 Ibid., 156.