JAMES BERNARD QUILLIGAN

Two decades ago, the Brandt Commission reports, North-South and Common Crisis offered the international community a forward-looking plan for balancing the creation of wealth with the provision of public goods and the preservation of the environment... Willy Brandt's panel of international leaders represented a breadth of expert viewpoints crossing every spectrum - geographic and economic, political and ideological. They produced the first agreement ever by influential statesmen and leaders from developed and developing nations on restructuring the world economy... In the best-selling books on international development in history, the Brandt Commission set out a comprehensive strategy for food, aid, environment, trade, finance and monetary reform - as well as global negotiations to implement those objectives.