Reluctant to let well enough alone, the administration of President Bill Clinton in the United States has persuaded its partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to push eastward. Who will be included and when they may join is still up...
The end of the Cold War was hailed by many at the time as the beginning of an era of unparalleled peace and prosperity. There was enormous optimism that the international community, released from the grip of superpower rivalry, would turn its attention...
This impressive volume comprises contributions from twenty-three economic geographers examining the economic and spatial development of the Canadian economy. The stated task of the volume is 'to capture Canada's deeper and abiding economic characteristics,...
It is encouraging when a book about integration and cohesion exhibits those qualities itself. Whether through the exercise of editorial hegemony or through an uncommon consensus among the fifteen other contributors, most of them European, this volume...
This book is a welcome addition to the contemporary post-Cold War conflict and conflict resolution literature and provides an analytical and empirical structure to a field of study that has evolved steadily from the normative biases and orthodox approaches...
What is the relative importance of leadership when set against broad social, economic, and political trends? This is a difficult equation, made more so when the actions of the relevant actors are not clearly perceived and understood. Western commentators...
As Yugoslavia entered into its final crisis in the spring of 1991, France was still recovering from the shock of the fall of the Berlin wall, which had shaken the very basis of French foreign policy. France could no longer exploit the bipolarity which...
Reinhard Drifte is professor and chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Newcastle in Britain. As most recent academic writings on Japanese foreign policy are American, Drifte's book offers a refreshing British perspective -- for example, it pays...
THE SECRETARY-GENERALSHIP As Kofi Annan settles into office as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, the challenge he faces is not merely to cope with 'the most impossible job' -- which is how Trygve Lie, the first secretary-general, described...
INTRODUCTION In recent years, the global proliferation of conventional weapons has earned a prominent, if not a central, place on the increasingly crowded post-Cold War international security agenda. But while public, academic, and governmental awareness...
The enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) appears to be unstoppable. A number of east central European states will be offered membership in July 1997 and will become full members by 1999. The proponents of enlargement speak optimistically...
It is truly remarkable that in the field of international relations so little attention has been paid to the advent of global communication technologies. On this basis alone, Edward Comor's edited volume should be commended. As the title suggests, the...
In April 1970, Susan Strange published an article in the Chatham House review which challenged the mutual exclusivity of international economics and international politics.(f.1) The consequence was a rebirth of the concept of political economy in international...
The question of leadership in the Bretton Woods institutions looms large during a period in which the relative position of states is undergoing change, not only in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank but also in the broader international...
Over the past few decades, the world has experienced considerable change. Most momentous was the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism throughout Eastern Europe. Will the twenty-first century witness the triumph of capitalism, democracy, and 'Westernization'...
As the subtitle to this book attests, Benjamin Miller attempts to provide an explanation for a wide sweep of activities in international relations. The theoretical insights are intended to be broad, but the heart of the argument is much more exact. Miller...
Seldom has an issue split the Western policy community as dramatically as the debate over NATO enlargement. Not only does the issue bring to the fore much that has been latent in post-Cold War power relationships; the participants in the debate enter...
Engagement is all,' according to 'America's World,' a special section of the Economist in November 1996. John Ruggie would disagree. Of course America's weight in the world is so large that its acts of omission and commission have an effect on other...