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Using the device of a dramatised chess match, this programme analyses three different strategies for changing the international economic order. They are: negotiated reform, the growth of countervai...ling power and structural change based upon self-reliance.
Using the device of a dramatised chess match, this programme analyses three different strategies for changing the international economic order. They are: negotiated reform, the growth of countervai...ling power and structural change based upon self-reliance.
| Module code and title: | D233, World politics |
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| Item code: | D233; 11 |
| First transmission date: | 13-10-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:15 |
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| Producer: | Jeremy Cooper |
| Contributors: | Johan Galtung; Michael Shackleton; Bill Boazman; Trevor Butler; Basil Otoin; Eric Richard; Jonathan Elsom |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Economic development; Politics; Reform; Trade |
| Footage description: | This programme is largely presented as a dramatised chess match, played between rich and poor, north and south, with comments from Johan Galtung and Michael Shackleton. The first section shows the nature of the unequal game between north and south, and the need for a new economic order. Johan Galtung argues that only structural change will benefit the poor peoples of the world. Mike Shackleton introduces a further strategy, negotiated reform. This policy is acted out in the chess game. The limits of this approach are soon found. Galtung argues that such an approach is too concerned with the terms of trade and maintains the vertical division of labour. He criticises the concept of a trickle-down effect, but states that the Lome convention did at least bring the elites of the A.P.C. countries together, to speak with one voice. Shackleton now introduces a further scenario that of the third world developing a countervailing power. This idea is then acted out. Galtung gives his criticism of this development strategy. He argues that some countries will prosper: China, Japan and S.E. Asia, but this is just a replacement of the old centre with a new one. The masses of the world in the periphery will find things unchanged. The old structure remains. Galtung now describes five steps that could lead the developing world to self-reliance. These are acted out. They are the taking of power by the people, delinking from the international economy, redistribution of control of assets to people in general and the development of agricultural and industrial production. He then argues that it is possible to re-link with the world economy with a new set of rules based upon self-reliance. If countries are small they should join together to strengthen their negotiating powers. This process is not inevitable and even if successful will lead to a new structure which would then throw up new problems for future generations. |
| Master spool number: | OU 3679 |
| Production number: | FOUD148P |
| Videofinder number: | 123 |
| Available to public: | no |
