After the Cold War : essays on the emerging world order / edited by Keith Philip Lepor. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997. - xliii, 300 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. The Post-Cold War Order: Conceptual Foundation -- pt. 2. The International System in the Post-Cold War Order -- pt. 3. The United States and the Commonwealth of Independent States in the Post-Cold War Order -- pt. 4. Regional Divisions in the Post-Cold War Order -- pt. 5. The Nonaligned Movement and the View from the South -- pt. 6. Ideology in the Post-Cold War Order

In this book of specially commissioned essays, twenty world leaders assess the posibilities and perils of the new strategic, political and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world. They tackle such fundamentals questions such as What is the future of the international system as we approach the twenty-first century? What will be the fate of disintegrating nation-states, and how will the international community respond? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness? Are we beginning to witness the complete breakdown of the international system? Given the unprecedented rate and scope of change in the world's political landscape as the twentieth century draws to a close, this book will be an invaluable tool for diplomats and politicians, scholars, and business leaders. General readers, too, will find this book and excelllent overview of the emerging world order, written by those who are curently shaping it. -- Front flap

0292746938 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780292746930

96023670


International relations.
World politics--1989-
Relaciones Internacionales.
La política mundial--1989.

JZ 1242 / A258 1997

327