[This book] clarifies vividly many of the less obvious and complex issues behind the tensions shaping the North-South political-economic struggle. . . . Impressive in its scope and informational content. Choice

Jackson's work seeks to dispel the perception that the movement of third world nonaligned nations . . . is ineluctably anti-United States and pro-Soviet. . . . [His] call for a new approach deserves attention. Current History