The claims of the developing countries for more equal participation in existing international economic arrangements have been eclipsed temporarily by global economic recession and the pressures on developing countries to adjust their economies to radically changed circumstances.

1. Introduction: Explaining North-South Negotiations, 2. Commodity Bargaining: The Political Economy of Regime Creation, 3. The United Nations Committee of the Whole: Initiative and Impasse in North-South Negotiations, 4. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea: North-South Bargaining on Ocean Issues, 5. The Wheat Negotiations: Loss or Gain in North-South Relations? 6. The Multifiber Arrangement: The Third Reincarnation, 7. The World Administrative Radio Conference 1979 Negotiations: Toward More Equitable Sharing of the Global Radio Resources, 8. Negotiating the Lomé Conventions: A Little Is Preferable to Nothing, 9. Debt Negotiations and the North-South Dialogue, 1974-1980, 10. Conclusions: Importance of North-South Negotiations