Willy Brandt was a prominent German politician and former Chancellor of West Germany. His leadership significantly influenced the Social Democratic Party of Germany during his long tenure as its leader. His political career shaped the post-war German landscape and its international relations. He was a key figure in shaping modern German politics.
Born in 1913 to working-class parents, Willy Brandt got an early start in politics. By 1933 he was an active anti-Nazi and was forced to flee Germany for Denmark and Norway. He remained outside Germany for thirteen years, actively involved in the Resistance and as a radical journalist. For these actions he was stripped of his German nationality by the Nazis in 1938; it was returned to him only in 1948. A year later he was elected a deputy for Berlin in the first German
The arms race continues to turn resources and priorities away from international development. Diminishing aid programs, growing Third World debt, a population that may reach 10 billion people in the foreseeable future in spite of all efforts to control it, increasing division of the world into pro-US and pro-Soviet camps - these are the dangers Willy Brandt feels can lead not only to greater world poverty and famine but also to world conflict.In this strongly worded book, Brandt goes beyond the diplomatic role he has formerly played and describes major problems plaguing the globe today, as well as solutions for them. From personal observation and experience, Brandt demonstrates that the West has failed to meet today's challenges and delivers a frank criticism of the Reagan administration's policies - or lack of them.Willy Brandt, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974, has been a member of the European Parliament since 1979. Among his many awards were the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and the Albert Einstein Peace Prize in 1985. He is the author (with Anthony Sampson) of North-South: A Program for Survival, and The Common Crisis North-South: Cooperation for World Recovery (both MIT Press paperbacks).
Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues
This report describes the world deadlock at the end of the 1970s: unused factories and mass unemployment in rich countries, and desperate, unmet needs in the poorer countries. It explains how this situation came about and how relationships between the developed and the developing world changed over the preceding three decades.