The issues on the agenda at the 1985 Bonn economic summit thus revealed how the world had changed; they primarily concerned trade relations among the industrial countries—protectionism, the dollar, accommodating Japan’s economic challenge. They were “West-West” issues. Oil and energy, the preeminent “North-South” issue, was not on the table at all. As in the 1960s, oil and energy were now available in abundance and, thus, they were not a constraint on economic growth. Supplies were safe again.
