A broad yet distinctive analysis of the growing political,economic, and social gap existing between the world'snorthern and southern hemispheres. Featuring papers selected by theISA President from the 2006 annual meeting, this upper-level volumeexamines the genesis of the North-South divide, the ongoing policyproblems between developed and lesser developed states, and howthese issues influence current and future world politics.
* * An upper-level text ideal for academic libraries, think tanks,and libraries of policy institutions
* Organized into three distinct focus clusters: Problemsafflicting the global South -- trade, development, financialcrises, structural adjustment, democratization, human rights,disease; Specific conflicts between North and South -- energy,terrorism, weak states, nuclear weapon proliferation; Solutions toreduce the North-South gap -- foreign aid programs, global media,democratization, political power in the United Nations, theemerging powers phenomenon, transnational social movements, andNorthern foreign policy adjustments
* Tackles the tough questions likely to dominate internationalrelations discourse for decades to come