Building a new global order : emerging trends in international security

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Building a new global order : emerging trends in international security

edited by David Dewitt, David Haglund, John Kirton

Oxford University Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. The Gulf War raised the spectre of expanding regional conflicts adopting the means and methods of the previous superpower confrontation. The disintegration of the Horn of Africa, the Civil War in the Balkans, and the resurgence of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia all reveal the continuing power of historic ethnic, religious, and national rivalries, and the seeming inability of the international community to deal effectively with these tragedies. Weapons technologies, modern telecommunications and transportation, demographic changes and resource imbalances, and the globalization of production together raise enormous challenges as we move into the 21st century. Are the international institutions with which we have lived since the end of the Second World War up to the task? This book addresses many of these basic and profound issues.

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  • NCID
    BA21579592
  • ISBN
    • 0195409647
  • Country Code
    cn
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Toronto ; Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 426 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Classification
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