The Developing Countries’ Interest in East-West Relations

Abstract

We live at a time when an individual — having ample information at his disposal — is in an ever easier position to consider and discuss global problems; yet his possibilities of expressing the views of the groups he is talking about are ever diminishing. In the same way, it is difficult for him to rise — even if he wishes — above conflicting interests and to look for a synthesis if such a synthesis is even possible. Such limitations are felt even more by the author when the objects of his consideration are the developing countries, with their difficult problems of liberation and development on the one hand, and the complicated East-West relations (frequently ‘non-relations’), on the other hand.