The Political Economy of International Shipping in Developing Countries.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 22 December 1998
• Author: Katalinas, David J.
• Published date: 22 December 1998
• Author: Katalinas, David J.

OKECHUKWU C. IHEDURU, THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; Associated University Presses, Inc.; London (1996); ($45.95); ISBN 0-87413-552-4; 300 pp. (hard cover).

Through the context of the international shipping industry, this book presents the ongoing conflict involving the industrialized states' struggle to maintain global hegemony and the lesser-developed states' futile attempts to implement change in the regimes that govern its international relations. Specifically, evidence of the Southern states' failed demand for a new international economic order (NIEO) has been seen through their quest for a new international maritime order (NIMO), which emerged soon after the 1974 United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct for Linear Conferences. In relations between the North and South...