After the Cold War : essays on the emerging world order / edited by Keith Philip Lepor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lepor, Keith Philip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1997.

Summary:

The end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union reassured people around the world who had lived in fear of a nuclear confrontation between the superpowers. Yet the early euphoria over "peace dividends" and a "new world order" was premature. Conflicts within and between nation-states are springing up around the globe, challenging world leaders and ordinary citizens to find peaceful means for national, group, and individual self-determination. In this book of specially commissioned essays, twenty world leaders assess the possibilities and perils of the new strategic, political, and economic interrelationships that are emerging around the world. They tackle such fundamental questions 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? The contributors are: Ali Alatas (Indonesia) Tariq Aziz (Iraq) James A. Baker III (United States) Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) Boutros Boutros-Ghali (United Nations) Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil) Osama El-Baz (Egypt) Eduardo Frei (Chile) Alberto Fujimori (Peru) Rachid Ghannouchi (eminent Islamic thinker) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian Federation) Kamal Kharrazi (Iran) Andrei Kozyrev (Russian Federation) Leonid Kuchma (Ukraine) Nelson Mandela (South Africa) Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan) Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) Muammar El-Qadhafi (Libya) Fidel Ramos (Philippines) Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao (India)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 The Post-Cold War Order: Conceptual Foundation

Toward the Twenty-first Century

The Post-Cold War Era: A View from the South

Part 2 The International System in the Post-Cold War Order

The United Nations in a Post-Cold War Order

Challenge and Opportunity in the Post-Cold War Era: Building an International Environment Supportive of Democracy

The Post-Cold War Era: "Facts and Prospects"

Part 3 The United States and the Commonwealth of Independent States in the Post-Cold War Order

Selective Engagement: Principles for American Foreign Policy in a New Era

Russia in the Multipolar World

Kazakhstan and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Inevitable Integration in the Post-Cold War Order

Ukraine: Identity in the Post-Cold War Era

Part 4 Regional Divisions in the Post-Cold War Order

Iran's View of the Post-Cold War Era: Continuity and Change in the Region

The Age of People Power in the Pacific

Peru and Latin America in the Post- Cold War World

Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Challenges and Responses in the Post-Cold War Era

The African Region in the Post-Cold War Global System

Part 5 The Nonaligned Movement and the View from the South

The Nonaligned Movement in the Post-Cold War Order: An Indonesian View

The Third World and the Post-Cold War Order: Challenges and Contributions

Part 6 Ideology in the Post-Cold War Order

Liberty and Solidarity: Post-Cold War Challenges to Democracy

A Revolutionary Perspective on the New World Order

Islam and the West: Concord or Inevitable Conflict

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 24, 2018).

ISBN:

0-292-76779-X

OCLC:

1280945782