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Non-aligned common front: strategic imaginaries of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)

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Fifty years after the Sixth Special Session, the Progressive International (PI) has declared a strategy of "renovating the NIEO". However, key questions remain about the decisions that created and led the original campaign. The NIEO's draft declarations were brought to the UN General Assembly by the leaders of 95 states, caucused as the G77. Their solidarity was necessarily pluralistic, drawing on Marxist and Liberal visions of what Adom Getachew called “post-imperial worldmaking”. This raises the question of how this global "common front" was possible, and what the PI might do differently this time. As a partial explanation, I compare two of the project's strategic imaginaries, showing that they were successfully synthesised in practice. As this legacy inspires the PI's focus on the possibilities of sovereign debt crises, the NIEO continues to play an important historical role. It alludes to possible options, or alternative futures, of world order and global development.

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  • Sam Nicholls, 2025. "Non-aligned common front: strategic imaginaries of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(6), pages 891-901, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:35:y:2025:i:6:p:891-901
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2024.2400160
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