International institutions

The political dimension of arms control has always had special significance for the Federal Republic of Germany, not only because of the issue of a divided Germany and a partitioned Europe but also because of the country's key position in the Western security alliance.

In these essays, one of the most eminent political scientists of our time examines international relations from a variety of perspectives connected by timeless and common themes: the conflict between die ever-present risk of violence and the quest for international order, the tensions between the imperatives of power and those of morality, the ties that bind domestic and foreign policy, the ambiguities of the nuclear revolution, the break between prenuclear and post-1945 politics, and the dangers created by the competition between the nuclear superpowers.

The survival of NATO as a viable alliance is currently challenged by a shift in the strategic balance of power, as well as by global events and contingencies that extend far beyond NATO's boundaries.

This book provides a summation of many of the key points and insights that emerged during the first meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Confidence and Security Building Measures Working Group in Washington, D.

The author presents a journey through African and Western history, culture and politics.

With the ending of white minority rule in South Africa, the democratic elections in Mozambique and the renewed efforts at a negotiated settlement of civil war in Angola, Southern Africa has entered a new era.

Four years after the end of the Cold War, the United States and its European allies have still not agreed on a new security system to deal with war in Yugoslavia, a restless eastern Europe, and an unstable Russia.

This book, a critical study of Haiti's place in the "e;New World Order,"e; examines the limits of its "e;democratic revolution"e; and the prospects for social change.

The global debt burden has proven to be a bad bargain for developed and developing countries alike.

In 1984, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti aptly summarized popular perception of the divided nationality of the two Germanys, East and West: "e;There are two German states, and two they shall remain.

This book addresses the evolving role of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The essays in this book trace the development of the author's thinking about international institutions between 1980 and 1988.

From Bosnia to Somalia, and most recently from Rwanda to Angola and the Sudan, humanitarian aid and international interventions have gone awry.

From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with political decision-making by focusing on the process of implementation that follows important policy decisions.

This book provides a historical perspective of the Uruguay Round agreement and focuses on the interaction between the developed and developing countries on matters relating to the global trading system and its disciplines since the founding of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

This book addresses the problems of administrative reform in Third World countries by examining recent reform efforts in Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Latin America remains a turbulent region, characterized by conflict and increased militarization, despite the existence of regional juridical mechanisms for controlling disputes.

The survival of NATO as a viable alliance is currently challenged by a shift in the strategic balance of power, as well as by global events and contingencies that extend far beyond NATO's boundaries.

This book provides a detailed overview of the debate about the institutional context of Western European security after the Cold War.

For more than two decades, the USSR promoted the idea of multilateral security cooperation in Asia.

This book aims to take stock of the state of environmental degradation in Europe from theoretical and empirical point of views.

The drastically altered European security context has forced Western defence planners and analysts to reassess core assumptions, including the future role of NATO.

One of the most important and controversial challenges feeing the international financial and trading system is the need for developing countries to meet their high and rapidly growing external debt obligations and foreign exchange requirements.

The collapse of political institutions and the failure of economic development models in Central America have turned the region into an ideological battleground.

This volume addresses a selected set of issues that appear to be especially salient with regard to alliances in U.

The 1968-1974 drought in the Sahel was an unprecedented catastrophe for the region, causing extensive crop failures, loss of human and animal populations, political instability, and the destruction of social and cultural structures.

Thirty years ago, President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposal to the United Nations provided the basis for development of nuclear cooperation, trade, and nonproliferation policy in the noncommunist world.

This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East-of the Third World.

This book examines the political and economic legacy of the Duvalier regime with the intention of clarifying its implications for Haiti's development.

This book analyzes the principal landmarks in the evolution of a unified European stance toward the Middle East conflict, placing events in the context of the contemporary political and economic circumstances.

Examining the efficacy of U.

This book is an exploration of the security and defense policies of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg with the specific goal of discovering opportunities for greater Benelux security cooperation which could serve as the foundation of a European Defense Community.

This book reexamines the U.

This book aims to develop and test a model of International Monetary Fund (IMF) decision-making that will offer a better understanding of how the IMF applies its lending terms to individual countries such as Jamaica, Zaire, Sudan, India, United Kingdom, Turkey and Argentina.

This book presents various aspects of the changing nature of East-West relations and attempts to anticipate future trends in East-West trade and technology transfer, dealing with the evolution of national approaches towards trade and technology transfer.

The contributors to this volume discuss how a West European security union would fit into the trans Atlantic and trans-European settings.

This book examines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 and other stringent non-proliferation laws that seek to tighten U.

The world total of some 50,000 nuclear warheads is beginning to fall off sharply.

The authors compare the ideologies of the free-market with religious faith, giving the World Bank the role of a secular church setting out to convert the world's underdeveloped economies to the consumer capitalist way, and so to create an enormous secular empire.

The contributors to this book set out to show that NATO's post-Cold War troubles are largely self-generated and almost exclusively "e;eastern"e;.

This in an investigation of the sources, manifestations and implications of international conflict and co-operation throughout Eastern Europe within the broader framework of regional instabilities accompanying the post-communist transition.

This book is about the Franco-German military cooperation.

This book is about the strategic importance of NATO-Europe and why Western Europe should continue to remain the primary geographic area of importance in U.

International trade policy is facing a cross-roads.

Although independent since 1960, Chad has proved to be one of the least viable African states.

The political, economic, and social problems of Central America during the past four years have at times threatened to escalate into a generalized conflict.

With this volume the history of the first century of the International reaches its conclusion.

How can political leaders best control the effects of transnational links on their societies, maintaining the prosperity brought by such ties while minimizing their unstabilizing effects?

This study challenges several widely held assumptions about Central American economic integration, arguing that the key to understanding the failure of the integration program lies in neither advanced economic nor regional integration theory, but in the domestic politics of the states involved.

The historical controversy over South Africa's policy of apartheid has not been without effect on that country's participation and status in the international system.