Bo Stråth is a Professor emeritus. He was Professor of Nordic, European and World History at Helsinki University. He was Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute in Florence from 1997 to 2007. He is the author of Europe's Utopias of Peace: 1815, 1919, 1951 (2015) and co-author of A Brief History of Political Economy (2016) and European Modernity: A Global Approach (2017).

1. Introduction. The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 80s 2. Development vs Dependency 3. Distorters of Development: The Multinational Corporations 4. The G77 and the NIEO: The Contours of a New World Order 5. The Great Transformation of the 1970s and 80s 6. A Commission Against World Poverty 7. A Commission for a New World Order 8. Proposal for a New Keynesian World Order but Where Are the Multinationals? 9. Cantún: From Utopia to Apology. The Opening Towards a Neoliberal Global Market Order 10. The Follow-up Commissions for Planetary Policies and the Final Farce 11. The Brandt Commission and the Global Corporations Today 12. Planetary Perspectives: One World to Share. An Interview with Shridath Ramphal