Part 1: J.D.B.Miller and international relations, R.J.Vincent; the sovereign state in the international system, F.H.Hinsley; sovereign equality - the First World and the third, W.T.R.Fox. Part 2 Western policy towards the Third World: American policy in the third World 1947-1987, Coral Bell; Britain and the Third World, James Mayall; Australian foreign policy and the Third World, T.B.Millar. Part 3 Third World policies towards the West: South Africa and the West, Jack Spence; the West in Arab foreign policy James Piscatori; Latin America and the West, Andrew Hurrell. Part 4 Multilateral linkages between the West and the Third World: the Commonwealth and the Third World, Peter Lyon; western security policy towards the Third World, Robert O'Neill; economic linkages between the West and the Third World, Susan Strange; ethnic issues in the north-south relations, J.L.Richardson; east-west - north-south Moscow, Washington, and the third World, Richard H. Ullman.
