Thursday 24 October 2013

TOWARDS A NEW WORLD ORDER: AFRICA’S RELATIONS WITH DEVELOPED WORLD IN THE POST COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM



TOWARDS A NEW WORLD ORDER: AFRICA’S RELATIONS WITH DEVELOPED WORLD IN THE POST COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

                                        By

                                    Olufemi P. Adelusi (Ph.D)

ABSTRACT



The chapter looks at the ‘new world’ from the point of view of Africa’s relationship with the developed world.  ‘Developed world’ here refers to the advanced, industrialised countries of North America and Europe, as well as Japan.
The chapter examines the origins of the present world order and using the dependency paradigm, attempts to deduce its implications for Africa – Developed world relations:  How will the ‘new world order’ affect Africa’s position especially economic position – relative to the developed world?
The chapter attempts to answer this question by showing clearly, that Africa’s continued dependence on the developed world has worsened its conditions of underdevelopment.
Based on preceding analysis, the chapter concludes that Africa’s condition of dependence and underdevelopment will get worse under the new dispensation unless the continent is willing and able to pursue a course of collective self-reliance.









1.              INTRODUCTION: THE ORIGIN OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER

     In 1985, given what he called “socio-economic stagnation, loss of momentum and  
   Inertia” (Novesty Press Agency, 1987). in Soviet Society as reasons, Soviet Leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, introduced the twin policies of Glasnost (Openness) and Perestroika (Economic Reconstruction).  Glasnost provided for political reforms including freedom of expression and dissent, while Perestroika provided for economic reforms through the introduction of commodification and other principles of free market economy.  The economy was decentralized and private ownership of some firms was allowed.

The introduction of Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union led to reform movements in Eastern Europe especially in 1989.  It inspired peace moves, multi-party political systems and liberalisation of political institutions worldwide.  More significantly, it led to the demise or weakening of communist parties especially in Eastern Europe; where Communist Parties either disappeared (as in the former German Democratic Republic) or changed names and forms (as in the other countries of Eastern Europe) and became Swedish type Social Democratic Parties.  By October 1989, Communism had collapsed in Eastern Europe.

This seemingly abrupt Soviet Switch from a Marxist-Leninist posture to ideas hitherto unthinkable in official (Soviet) circles unleashed demands for further liberalisation of Soviet Institutions, (led to) nationalist … uprisings within the country, (led to) the automatic collapse of the Warsaw military bloc, the reunification of the former German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany, and (led to) the re-organisation of the Communist trading bloc to adapt to ideas of hard currency trade based on Western models. (Sunday New Nigerian (Kaduna),1991)

The introduction of Glasnost and Perestroika was in effect, an admission of the failure of Socialism.  It marked the end of the cold war and perhaps, of ideology also.  The subsequent triumph of democratic politics and market economics along with the enormous economic problems of the Soviet Union, have led to the ‘enfeeblement’, relative to the U.S.A. with the result that the U.S.A. has emerged as the dominant power in the world today.  “For the first time in over half a century, no single great power, or coalition of powers, poses a ‘clear and present danger’ to the national security of the United States.  The end of the cold war has left America in the …. Position of being without an obvious major adversary”. (GADIS, John. Lewis 1991:102)

 This fact was perfectly illustrated in the recent gulf crisis during which United States mobilised and international war machinery against Iraq which had invaded and annexed Kuwait.  It was the first time in history that the United Nations Security Council, with the consent of the Soviet Union, authorised the use of force against a member country.  America’s preponderance in the world today means that it now exercises effective control of the United Nations.

One may ask: why did the U.S.A. (and the West) triumph over the Soviet bloc in the cold war?  The answer is that the superior technology of the ‘West’; its dominant media; its well established colonial and post colonial era contacts around the world; its well orchestrated claim to represent a better model of individual freedom and human liberty; as well as the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, all combined to ensure the victory of the ‘West’.  It has been suggested that for this victory to come about, there must have been sufficient ‘spadework’ done over the years to set up the right atmosphere for it to materialise.   It has been suggested that that background ‘spadework’ done over the years to set up the National Security Council Document 68 (NSC-68) as blue print.  The NSC-68 document it a top secret document produced in April 1950 by American experts, and classified until 1975 when the then US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger de-classified it.  The document provides for a policy of containment of communism through the build up of American Political, Economic, and Military strength.  It provides for specific overt and covert operations by US agencies – notably the CIA – to shore up the ‘West’ and undermine the Soviet bloc.
 As one analyst has noted:
 The US National Security Council document NSC-68 is a highly significant example of the
 Kind of specific long term Western planning that has eventually created the kind of political, economic, and cultural climate conducive to the role played by the figure of Gorbachev. (Sunday New Nigerian (Kaduna). 1991:5)

One may ask the pertinent question; what, exactly, is this ‘New World Order’?  The United States President, George Bush, defined it as one in which “the principles of Justice and Fair play protect the weak against the strong, a world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations” (US Department of State 1991:162)

 The Soviet President, Gorbachev, also defined it as a World order marked by a renewed global co-operation and an end to the arms race. (Busset Bruce and Sutterlin. James S. Foreign Affairs.  Spring. 1991:69)
  Thus, “the new world order envisioned by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would be founded on the rule of law and on the principle of collective security” (Ibid)


II.             THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS.
The theoretical framework of analysis adopted for this paper is the dependency theory.The dependency theory arose in the 1960’s out of the experience of Latin American. (ORWA D.K. Longman Group, 1985:12)

 As a result of the increasing underdevelopment of the Latin American and other third world countries and their increasing dependence on the industrialized countries, modernisation theory – which had been popular for long – came under sever criticism and was radically challenged by the dependency and underdevelopment theories of development. Dos Santos has  defined dependency as “a situation in which the economies of certain countries are conditioned by the development and expansion of another economy to which the former is subjected”  (SANTOS DOS The American Economic Review 1970:231)

While the condition of underdevelopment of a country means that “there are inadequate social and economic structural changes to give the economy a balanced, integrated and self-sustaining growth in the Gross Domestic Product”. (Ojo, Olatunde J.1985:53)

Early analysts who applied this theory to explain, ‘the condition of underdevelopment’ of the Latin American, ‘the ‘Third World’ countries include (Stein S.J.& Stein, B.H. 1970), (Cockcroft, James D. Frank A.G. And Johnson, A.G. 1972) (Chilcote, Ronald 1974),(Bath Richard And James D. D.) But the best known of the early applications of this theory is the work of Andre Gunder Frank titled ‘Capitalism and underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil’ (Andre Gunder Frank, 1969).  Later, this early version (which can be characterised as economic) – especially as found in A. G. Frank’s writings – came under criticism and led to the rise of a Cultural/Ideological version of  the theory.  This version gained popularity in the late 1970’s when dependency analysis became widely used as a tool in analysing all ‘third world’ countries’ relations with the advanced industrialized countries of Europe and North America.

Of recent, in addition to foreign economic and political factors, emphasis was also placed on internal, domestic structures and factors which sustain dependency and underdevelopment.  Thus, the economic, the political and the cultural were all brought in to analyse the dynamics of the relationship between the underdeveloped and developed countries.  Prominent analysts within this school include Walter Rodney (Rodney, Walter 1974), Colin Ley ( Ley, Colin 1975), Claude Ake (Claude Ake,) and Smith Tony (Smith, Tony 1979).

From the perspective of the dependency school, underdevelopment is a function of the incorporation of the ‘third-World’ countries into the world capitalist system. 


International Capital developed a Centre-Periphery relationship between the
metropole (the industrialized, capitalist countries) and its periphery (the underdeveloped, dependent countries) and its periphery (the exploitative in that surplus is expropriated from the Periphery and appropriated to the Centre.

 Dependency theory argues that the penetration of the ‘third-world’ countries by international capital is the cause rather than the cure of their backwardness and underdevelopment.  The condition of underdevelopment in which a dependent country exists is such that “the dominant economies of the industrialized capitalist States expand and maintain self-sustaining growth while the dependent economies of the non-industrial countries can only expand and grow as a reflection of the former”  ( Orwa D.K.:2).  It is this phenomenon that is characterised as neo-colonialism (or economic colonialism).

There are substantial disagreements within the dependency school as well as significant differences of emphasis, modifications and refinements of interpreted positions (Ojo, Olatunde J.:57).  However, the following may be regarded as the tenets of the theory and on which there is general agreement:
(a)  African States, indeed all underdeveloped States are dependent on the capitalist world for technology, capital, finance and monetary systems, and for trade.  This is because the capitalist world has a virtual monopoly over the ‘means of production’.
(b) Dependence and Monopoly mean control and exploitation.
(c)  This dependency relationship is the product of the incorporation of Africa and underdeveloped countries into the capitalist system.
(d) Incorporation resulted, under the aegis of imperialism and colonialism, in the disarticulation of transport as roads and railways were built not for the integration of the colonial country’s economy, but to facilitate exportation of raw materials to the capitalist core – Europe – and to bring manufactures to the Capitalist periphery – Africa – and other colonial territories (Ibid:57-58).


III.          THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND AFRICA –DEVELOPED WORLD RELATIONS.
As has already been noted, Africa’s relations with the developed world up till the advent of the new world order, have been marked by economic dependence on those countries.  The advent of a new world order with the United States of America as the dominant power has brought in its wake, far reaching political, economic and strategic changes in the world.  Given Africa’s condition of dependence and underdevelopment, attempts are made to examine the effects of these changes on her.

The global changes of these past six years, especially on the economic front, has left the world with capitalism and free market economy as the dominant mode of production.  The Soviet Union and the Eastern Europe, formerly centrally planned economies, are now moving towards market economy and are opening their markets to foreign investments.  The implication for Africa of the above could be seen in the likely transfer of a good portion of the financial aid (grants, loans and financial investment) formerly coming from the US, the Western European countries, and Japan to the countries of the Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union towards rebuilding their battered economies on a capitalist mode.

In this regard, the US, in the month of  June of 1991, made available to the Soviet Union, a further sum of $1500 million in farm credits. (Forbes. (New York), 1991:39)  The countries of Western Europe have also extended similar credits to the Soviet Union and as British Prime Minister was quoted as saying recently, “the G-7 leaders are determined to work together to promote the integration of the Soviet Union into the World Economy” (The Democrat. (Kaduna) :1).  The British Prime Minister, John Major, as the chairman of the group of ‘the world’s seven most industrialized countries’ (G-7), has the duty of monitoring Soviet progress towards a market economy.  The group recently decided at its July meeting in London that no further monetary aid will be given to the Soviet Union until its progress towards a full-fledged market economy is ascertained.  In the meantime, the group’s aid package to the Soviet Union Includes granting her an associate status with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank; and offering her financial advice.  United States President, George Bush, has also tabled before congress, a motion to grant the Soviet Union most favoured Nation (MFN) trading status.

In another development, the countries of Western Europe are preparing for a full Union in December 1992.  Arrangements are underway to provide for associate membership for the countries of Eastern Europe, in the first instance; and later, for full membership.  European integration means a breakdown of all frontion coupled with complete liberalization and deregulation of trade: there will now be free movement of goods and persons and this is expected to increase European competitiveness in the world market.  ‘It will also mean a division of the world into three strong economic zones and three weaker ones.  The strong ones are: North America (comprising the US, Canada, and Mexico) a United Europe (probably including Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union – what is left of it), and the Western Pacific (Comprising Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Asian newly industrialising countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand).  The weaker ones are: Africa; the near and Middle East; Latin and Central America.  Within the weaker bloc, Africa is the most underdeveloped segment.

“Integration (also) means that transnational actors like multinational corporations … can have a powerful influence on what happens to national States” (Gaddis, John Lewis:103) but they have always had. (Offiong, Daniel 1980) The important point is that this influence will now increase simply because of the strengthening of International Capitalism as a consequence of the United States” ‘Cold War’ triumph.

What possibly could the African countries do about their condition of underdevelopment in general?  The answer, undoubtedly, lies in self-reliance.  Collective Self-Reliance.  ‘Self-reliance is defined as a deliberate process or strategy for ending dependences and promoting development” (Ojo. Olatunde J :61).  In this regard, the signing in June 1991, of an African Economic Community (AEC) Treaty at Abuja, Nigeria is a welcome development.  However, “experience… has taught that the signing of a Treaty is no more than a political declaration of intent to pursue the objective enshrined in the Treaty.  The signing of a Treaty of an AEC must be recognised as only the first in a series of practical steps that Africa must take to recover lost ground” (The Guardian (Lagos) 1991:11).
Africa must now follow the example of Europe and proceed to put together a working unit comprising experts who will lay the institutional foundations for a United Africa.  African countries must jointly chart a path of self-reliance by harnessing and building on local technological know-how.  In this new world order, with the drive towards regional integration blocs, Africa must not only integrate, but must also seek to partake actively (economically) in the wider international community.  The increasing interdependence amongst Nations and regions of the world cannot be overlooked.  The advocacy for self-reliance need not be interpreted to mean same for autarchy.  Africa can continue to seek financial assistance from External Sources.

The character and form of these External Sources of financial assistance have, however, changed.  Initially, Africa countries preferred multilateral to bilateral aid because more stringent conditionalities were imposed under the latter; the situation is less favourable with the Developed World controlled multilateral agencies like the IMF and the World Bank.  With the emergence of a ‘new world order’ and battered Soviet and Eastern European economics to be rebuilt with Western aid, this African plight cannot but be worsened.

In recognition of their condition, African and other underdeveloped countries have, for years, been addressing the problem employing four broad strategies:  Through bilateral dialogue between countries of the ‘third world’ and developed world; through conference diplomacy between them; through trade Union diplomacy for instance, as carried on by economic cartels like OPEC; and through increased South – South co-operation as advocated by the group of 77 forum.

Dialogue has proven rather ineffective, as the countries of the developed world do not seem to be prepared to offer genuine concessions to African countries.

With regards to conference diplomacy, it is at such conference – the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developments (UNCTAD), that the call for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) emerged.  Through the NIEO, African and other underdeveloped countries are seeking the following: a restructuring of international trade with a view to shifting the terms of trade in favour of the ‘third world’ countries; to promote processing and manufacturing in these countries and to secure a guaranteed market for, at least, some of their products; and most importantly, the transference of real resources to the ‘third world’ through indexing, technical assistance and technological transfer (Ley, Colin :214).

The strategy of economic cartels was carried out notably through the activities of OPEC.  This cartel has initially adopted open confrontation in dealing with the developed world.  It has done this by imposing sanctions through withholding and increasing the price of its petroleum.  For instance it employed this method in 1973 in protest against Western support of Israel during the Arab – Israeli war.  A repeat of similar strategy is doomed to a failure in the emerging “new world order”.  The Soviet Union with its 60% share of world petroleum reserves is fast coming to terms with ‘the capitalist dominated economy’.  The long-term effect of this development is what an analyst has described thus “helping the Russians help themselves should also dampen OPEC’s ability to raise world oil prices” (Forbes.1991:35).  Coupled with the Soviet phenomenon is the likely increasing influence of the US in the gulf region with particular reference to the Saudi Arabian and Kuwaitian petroleum production and sales strategies.  This development is easily traceable to US role in reverting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait by her military leadership of a coalition force in March 1991.

One other major initiative by the ‘third world’ to overcome its underdevelopment is the group of ’77 (the group consisting of countries of the South.  That is developing countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia).  This group seeks to encourage South-South co-operation.  With advent of Regional integrative groupings, it has become imperative for African countries to now seek co-operation with other countries of the South and thus pursue further the aspirations and realistic objectives of the African Economic Community.

What are the likely Political implications of the ‘New World Order’ for Africa?.  The ‘capitulation’ of the Soviet Union and world communism has inevitably led to the triumph of democratic politics and to the institution of liberal democratic principles in Eastern Europe.  The end of the ‘cold war’, it seems drew the curtains on totalitarian regimes, be they communist or capitalist.  Political competition under the new dispensation so far appears to be along ‘integration/fragmentation’ lines.

In Eastern European countries, racial or ethnic forces of fragmentation are battling against forces of integration.  Yugoslavia is a case in point, where three of its constituent republics; Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia, declared their independence on the 26th June, 1991 and since then, have been fighting Federal forces.  The erstwhile Socialist Republics of Czechoslovakia was on the 17th November 1989, renamed ‘Czech and Slovak Federal Republic’ to assuage ethnic tensions between the Czechs and the Slovaks.  In the Soviet Union, the Baltic Republics – Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia – have declared their independence and had been allowed to become so by the central authorities.  This turn of event was hastened by the failed coup d’etat of the conservatives in the Soviet communist party to unseat President Gorbachev on the 19th August 1991.  The same event prompted other Soviet Republics to declare themselves independent.  The USSR’s Supreme legislative body eventually legally ratified these positions.  (The Guardian. (London). 1991:1) It went further by creating a confederal system with three structures namely; The State Council, The Council of Representatives and Inter-Republican Economic Council.  Though it was reported that eleven of the fifteen Republics took part in the discussions leading to the creation of those structures, only nine did sign the document. (Ibid:1)

In Western Europe, long standing nationalist conflicts still survive.  In the United Kingdom, the Irish republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland is still fighting the British government for her independence from Britain and for union with Republic of Ireland.  In Spain, the Basques separatists are still fighting for their independence.

In Canada, of recent, the Quebec Province separatists only barely failed to achieve their goaled when they lost in a provincial referendum to decide whether the province should declare independence from Canada or not.

The anticipated positive global peaceful dividends from the advent of a ‘New World Order’ seem to have influence on the course of political development in African continent.  The emergence of the US as the world’s dominant power has meant that it’s cherished values of democratic pluralism and liberalism have come to the fore and become dominant worldwide.  The decisive factor that has led to political changed in Africa is the weakening of the Soviet Union relatively to the US.  This situation has left enough room for the most dominant power to bring about the changes that she desires unchallenged and to encourage the installation of governments and regimes sympathetic to its cause.  A particular case for mention is that of Ethiopia, with the cessation on the part of USSR (and its allies, Yemen and Cuba) in financing and militarily supporting the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam thereby enabling a US backed coalition of rebel group – Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF, led by Melesse Zenawi – to overthrow it in June 1991.

Following a New York accord between the US, Angola, South Africa and Cuba on 22nd December, 1988, The Cuban troops stationed in Angola to help withstand the activities of the US backed UNITA rebels against the MPLA government, withdrew from the country in July 1991; thus preparing the way for free multi-party, Portuguese supervised elections to be held later in the year.  This has been the main demand of UNITA for long time and which the Soviet and Cuban backed, Marxist Angolan government had consistently refused to acquiesce to.  This initial arrangement, however, failed.  It took another agreement between both the Angola government and UNITA but brokered by the US and hosted by Portugal early in 1991 before certainty as to periodisation of elections and cease fire arrangements were possible.  The above example presents us another manifestation of at the dominance of the US in the world today.

In another vein, the world witnessed the fall of the nineteen year old Republic of Benin’s Marxist regime of President Mathieu Karekou in April 1991.  Due to overwhelming pressure from Western backed pro-democracy agitators, he was forced to recognize opposition political parties and permit democratic election in which he was defeated by Marcel Soglo, a non Marxist.  All over Africa, in recent time, pro-democracy agitations have intensified in Mali, Niger, Madagascar, Ghana, the Cameroon, Togo, Zaire, Zambia and Kenya.  The call everywhere is for a new charter of Political and Economic arrangements sanctioned only by a sovereign constituted ‘National Conference’.  While sit tight leaders in Kenya, Cameroon, Zaire, Zambia are, the first two were still adamant on democratic change from one party system, others have reluctantly bowed to the agitations for the desired change. Senegal, operating a nominal democracy eventually recognized their strong opposition parties by incorporating them in a coalition government in advance of the 1993 plebiscite.

The ‘New World Order’ in the offing has had the effect of spurring democratic changes in Africa.  This could  be considered a welcome development to the extent that it will encourage governments of African countries to be accountable to their citizenry or be voted out of office.  The bane of progress in African countries has been the existence of totalitarian and dictatorial rulers not leaders.

The advent of ‘New World Order’ raises an important question for the African (as well as other developing) countries: what is the future of the policy and politics of non-alignment and the non-aligned movement?  Most African countries had, through the non-aligned movement, dissociated themselves from the cold war ranging between the US and the USSR.  They had used the non-aligned movement as an instrument to avoid  taking sides.  With the end of the cold war, around the world have shown alignment with Democratic and Human Right Values by all Nations.

A positive development of the above findings is that, much hope is placed on a likely release of trapped funds in Arms procurement by oppressive or suppressive regimes, the great and supper powers for African (and other developing) countries for socio-economic development.  It was estimated in 1988, that just four percent of the global military budget would buy $28,000 million worth of goods and services in the less developed countries (PEARSON Frederick and ROCHESTER, J. Martin 1988:359).

In Africa, the end of several armed conflicts in Angola, Ethiopia, etc – as a direct result of the ‘New World Order’, will ease bloated defence spending on the grounds of ‘ensuring internal security’.  Most of African countries have much to ponder on, in the advice of a former, American Secretary of State and former President of the World Bank, Robert NcNamara that “in a modernising society, security is not in military hardware although it may involve it…, security is development and without development there can be no security” (ARLINGHAUS, Bruce 1991:5).

IV.          CONCLUSION.
This chapter has examined how the emergence of a ‘New World Order’ will affect Africa’s position in the global order of things.

From the analysis of Africa’s relations with the developed world, it is clear that it has continued to be underdeveloped because it is dependent on the developed world for capital and technological know-how.  This chapter has shown how these have had deleterious effects on the economics of African countries, distorting and disarticulating them.

However, the political and military consequences of the ‘New World Order’ for Africa have been on the positive side.  Politically, democratic tradition with its guarantees of individual freedom and liberty is in process of gaining ground.  Militarily; the armed conflicts which had ravaged the continent for long and impeded its socio-economic development, are ceasing.  The most important likely impact of the ‘New World Order’ as shown in this chapter, is in the economic sphere.  It is obvious that Africa’s economic dependence on the developed countries and its state of underdevelopment immediately put it at a disadvantaged position under this new dispensation.  Nevertheless, the continent need not resign itself to fate.  The situation can be improved upon by following a path of self-reliance through a common front like the  initiative that culminated in the signing of the African Economic Community Treaty in June 1991 in Abuja, Nigeria.

The seriousness attached to pursuing such and seeing to the realisation of the project of collective self reliance could be expected to increase with the demise of sit tight, democratically irresponsible dominant classes in leadership positions in individual African countries in very near future being heralded by a decisive democratic inclined ‘New World Order’ of all Nations.






                                                           

                                                        

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