After the Cold War: Essays on the Emerging World Order

Published by University of Texas Press 1997

After the Cold War

Essays on the Emerging World Order

Edited by: Keith Philip Lepor

https://doi.org/10.7560/746930

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About this book

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)

Author / Editor information

Keith Philip Lepor, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a global business and public policy advisor and consultant to international companies. He holds an M.Litt. in International Relations (Comparative East Asian Economic Development Strategies) from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University in Cairo.

Reviews

This look at how many of the world's leaders view the developing 'world order' in the aftermath of the Cold War is both fascinating and disturbing. Those who believe that the 21st century may prove to be as unstable as the century we are about to leave will find much to support their pessimism. But they will find, as well, reason to hope that the wisest among us may be able to find a common path toward a more stable and productive future. One reality jumps from almost every page: without the active engagement of the United States in the decades ahead chaos is assured.

— Lawrence S. Eagleburger

In an ambitious attempt to characterize andunderstand the unprecedented changes in the post-Cold War global order, the editor has amazingly collected the perspectives of 20 notable (and busy) world leaders and diplomats. Contributors range from Mikhail Gorbachev (once president of the USSR) and former US Secretary of State James Baker to various Third World heads of state, including Fernando Cardoso (Brazil), Alberto Fujimori (Peru), and Muammar El-Qadhafi (Libya). . . . The selections transcend speechifying and mirror diverse cultural, national, and ideological worldviews.

— Choice

. . . a number of present or former world leaders, predominantly from the global south, write on the state of the world, where it is heading, and the roles of their countries. Although Lepor regrets the refusal of representatives of the industrailized states to participate, the lacuna is not debilitating: their views are readily available and widely known. This collection's value lies precisely in the unmediated presentation of perspectives from representatives of the global south.

— Middle East Insight

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
Introduction Keith Philip Lepor Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
Part 1 The Post-Cold War Order: Conceptual Foundation
Toward the Twenty-first Century Nelson Mandela Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Post-Cold War Era: A View from the South Fernando Henrique Cardoso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Part 2 The International System in the Post-Cold War Order
The United Nations in a Post-Cold War Order Boutros Boutros-Ghali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Challenge and Opportunity in the Post-Cold War Era: Building an International Environment Supportive of Democracy Shri P. V Narasimha Rao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
The Post-Cold War Era: "Facts and Prospects" Tariq Aziz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
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 James A. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Russia in the Multipolar World Andrei Kozyrev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Kazakhstan and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Inevitable Integration in the Post-Cold War Order Nursultan A. Nazarbayev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Ukraine: Identity in the Post-Cold War Era Leonid Kuchma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
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 Kamal Kharrazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
The Age of People Power in the Pacific Fidel V Ramos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Peru and Latin America in the Post- Cold War World Alberto Fujimori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Challenges and Responses in the Post-Cold War Era Benazir Bhutto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
The African Region in the Post-Cold War Global System Olusegun Obasanjo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part 5 The Nonaligned Movement and the View from the South
The Nonaligned Movement in the Post-Cold War Order: An Indonesian View Ali Alatas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Third World and the Post-Cold War Order: Challenges and Contributions Osama El-Baz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Part 6 Ideology in the Post-Cold War Order
Liberty and Solidarity: Post-Cold War Challenges to Democracy Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
A Revolutionary Perspective on the New World Order Muammar Abu Minyar El-Qadhafi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Islam and the West: Concord or Inevitable Conflict Rachid Ghannouchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344

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Published: September 12, 2014
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