Research Conference: The New International Economic Order: Lessons and Legacies 50 Years Later

Friday May 10, 2024

Panel 1 The making of the NIEO: actors and ideas

Michael Leger: “Making money work for development: an intellectual history of the global debate on SDRs, the Link and monetary reform in the lead up to the NIEO”
David Yee: “The new international environmental order: Cocoyoc and rethinking the roots of environmentalism in the global south”
Fred Shaia: “The first global environmental summit: the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment”
Filip Batselé: “The ‘merchants of peace’ at war: the International Chamber of Commerce, the NIEO and the UN Code of Conduct”
Moderator: Ana Sofía Rodríguez

Panel 2 The NIEO’s diplomacies

Brad Simpson: “Indonesia and the New International Economic Order, 1974-1981”
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard: “Leveraging smallness: Sri Lanka and the New International Economic Order”
Elizabeth Banks: “‘What roles for women?’: Gendering the NIEO at the UN Regional Economic Commission for Africa”
Miriam Pensack: “Panama and the NIEO”
Moderator: Chiara Bonfiglioli

Panel 3 Social movements and the NIEO

Joanne Meyerowitz: “A feminist NIEO?”
Roxanne Houman: “Agents of economic justice: European fair trade activists in the 1970s”
Ihab Shalbak: “The political economy of liberation: the PLO and the NIEO”
Frank Gerits: “The new international environmental order: writing the international history of environmental justice and burden sharing from the Global South (1972-1992)”
Moderator: Luis Beneduzi

Saturday May 11, 2024

Panel 4 Challenges to the NIEO

Vivien Chang: “The revolt of the periphery’: the Third World Forum and the New International Economic Order”
Alanna O’Malley: “Beyond basic needs, the contestation of the NIEO within the G77”
Camila Acosta: “Lessons from the Fourth World: recovering indigenous critiques”
Mirek Tobiáš Hošman: “Friend or foe? The World Bank and the NIEO in the 1960s and 1970s”
Moderator: Duccio Basosi

Keynote Address

Quinn Slobodian: “The other New Intenational Economic Order: Section 301 and the prehistory of post-neoliberalism”

Panel 5 The NIEO’s legacies

Timothy Nunan: “New international Islamic order? The afterlives of the NIEO in Islamic thought and statecraft”
David Adler and Alexandros Kentikelenis: “After the NIEO: the death and resurrection of the NIEO”
Tehila Sasson: “The debt crisis, structural adjustments, and the (failed) attempts to remake the NIEO”
Aldo Marchesi: “ECLAC and the NIEO: From dependency theory to the struggle against poverty”
Moderator: Juan Flores Zendejas

Final Round Table Discussion