Dependency and the Foreign Policy of a Small Power the Liberian Case

The book assesses the relationship between the economic dependence of Third World States and their foreign policy orientations, specifically examining the impact of dependency on the foreign policy of Liberia. Using three major indices - foreign aid, trade and investment - the study gauges the dependency-foreign-power nexus in a sample of eight cases; four capitalist states (United States, Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, France), and four socialist states (the then USSR, People's Republic of China, German Democratic Republic, and Romania).