November 23, 2009

Post-Cold War World Transformations

Last updated: October 24, 2008

Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois

Swords and Ploughshares series
Vol. VII / No. 2 / Winter 1992-1993

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Summary

Since the autumn of 1989, the world has been massively transformed, but a new order for the post-Cold War era has yet to emerge. Fractured pieces of the former order lie scattered about while change races on. This issue of Swords and Ploughshares looks at four different dimensions of change now taking place around the globe and the implications of these developments for conflict and cooperation.

Contents

Introduction [PDF]
Jeremiah D. Sullivan

Geography and Hydropolitics [PDF]
Arun Elhance

Triple Transition in Eastern Europe [PDF]
Carol S. Leff

Ideology and Democracy in Latin America [PDF]
Gerardo L Munck

The Legacy of Nuclear Weapons [PDF]
Jeremiah D. Sullivan