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Comment: North -South conflict at Rio.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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The UN Conference on Environment and Development, the "Earth Summit" held at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992, was meant to make the Brundtland Report's idea of sustainable development (Our Common Future, 1987) the organising principle of world politics. It became instead the first great North-South confrontation after the Cold War, fought…

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  • Two framings of one crisis
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  • Rio's conflict today
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