Towards a new international economic order

Towards a new international economic order is the first in a new series entitled 'New Challenges to International Law' being published by Unesco. The titles in this series will often deal with controversial questions and will seek to provoke thought about how international law can be better adapted to the new demands being made by the modern world. In the first part of his book Mohammed Bedjaoui outlines the 'international order of proverty and the poverty of the international order' that our world has brought into being, and in the second part he examines what 'international development law and the development of international law' could be.

This study examines all current problems: What do we mean by 'new international economic order'? What realizations and hopes brought the concept into being? What is the extent and significance of the current crisis? What obstacles are there to the establishment of the new international economic order? What facts or invariables and their dependent parameters reveal the forces at work and the power balances, changing and renewed, on which progress to new stages in the history of mankind depends? What ways and means are there for establishing this new order? In particular, is the adaptation of the United Nations a necessary and sufficient condition for the establishment of this new order?