The arms race continues to turn resources and priorities away frominternational development. Diminishing aid programs, growing Third World debt, apopulation that may reach 10 billion people in the foreseeable future in spite ofall efforts to control it, increasing division of the world into pro-US andpro-Soviet camps - these are the dangers Willy Brandt feels can lead not only togreater world poverty and famine but also to world conflict.In this strongly wordedbook, Brandt goes beyond the diplomatic role he has formerly played and describesmajor problems plaguing the globe today, as well as solutions for them. Frompersonal observation and experience, Brandt demonstrates that the West has failed tomeet today's challenges and delivers a frank criticism of the Reaganadministration's policies - or lack of them.Willy Brandt, chancellor of the FederalRepublic of Germany from 1969 to 1974, has been a member of the European Parliamentsince 1979. Among his many awards were the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and the AlbertEinstein Peace Prize in 1985. He is the author (with Anthony Sampson) ofNorth-South: A Program for Survival, and The Common Crisis North-South: Cooperationfor World Recovery (both MIT Press paperbacks).