International Journal on World Peace articles from December 1999

International Journal on World Peace archives from December 1999

TWO KOREAS IN TRANSITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. POLICY.(Review)
December 1, 1999... At the dawn of the twenty-first century, both North and South Korea find their politics, economies, and societies in transition. The DPRK in the north and the ROK in the south have coexisted for the past fifty years, since the founding of their...

THE CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S ROLE.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The article examines the factors leading to the 800 year conflict in Northern Ireland and the rise of terrorism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Second, it discusses various attempts made by the Thatcher/Major governments to help resolve the...

Here the People Rule: A Toolbook for Reforming Democracy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Here the People Rule suggests that most Western democracies are antiques from the era of buggies and horsewhips. These fossilized political systems were not built to control the large central governments that prevail today. Lack of control...

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: NAFTA AND MERCOSUR, A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The globalization of worldwide problems of population growth, food scarcity, resource depletion, technology, economic development, and wealth distribution has forced Latin America and the United States to transcend borders to achieve economic...

COMMENT ON "ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: NAFTA AND MERCOSUR".(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... While, as Rafael Lecuona points out, MERCOSUR faces major challenges, it is also true that this powerful customs union has made remarkable political, economic, and diplomatic advances. One of the most significant indicators of MERCOSUR's...

CONFLICT RESEARCH IN AFRICA.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... This paper examines the role and function of research in Africa's problematic multiethnic states referred to here as divided societies. These consist of interrogations of the nature of conflicts in these states, as well as the strategies for...

THE LAST BALKAN CRISES AND THE RIGHT OF HUMANITARIAN INTERFERENCE.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Kosovo Polje, June 28, 1389. A good day to die, according to the more classic western iconography, but it is unlikely Prince Lazar and his men would have agreed while they were preparing to face the Turks entering Kosovo. We all know the end of...

KOSOVO LESSONS COULD LEAD TO SAFEGUARDING CIVILIZATION.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Kosovo taught us two lessons. A NATO comprised of 14 nations collaborated to successfully wage a war against the aggressor who had overrun Kosovo. I would have predicted that internal disagreements among the 14 nations would fracture NATO's...

VIETNAM REDUX.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... While focus on the war in Vietnam has understandably abated after 25 years, nonetheless, it is natural that the questions of causation linger. Could there have been different results and consequences? The precipitating--if not immediate cause...

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS AWARDED 1999 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
December 1, 1999... On October 16, it was announced that Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres), a group organized to send medical help to the some of the most dangerous places in the world, won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize. The organization was...

UN SENDS PEACEKEEPERS TO EAST TIMOR.
December 1, 1999... On August 30, 1999 East Timor won independence from Indonesia in a referendum. However, the Indonesian military was not pleased. By September 13, somewhere beteen 6000 and 7,000 people had been killed and more than 300,000 driven from their...

FIGHTING IN CHECHNYA RESUMES AFTER MOSCOW BOMBINGS.
December 1, 1999... The first two weeks of September brought more grief to Russia as Islamic rebels began a new tactic in their guerilla wars against the Russian Federation--bombing residential apartment buildings in Moscow. Over 300 people were killed in...

EX-GIS TELL OF KOREA KILLINGS IN JULY 1950.
December 1, 1999... Associated Press revealed that 200-400 South Korean civilian refugees were killed by American soldiers at No Gun Ri in July 1950. The report, pieced together from declassified documents and a series of interviews with ex-Korean war soldiers,...

The Family in Global Transition.(Review)
December 1, 1999... This book is a comprehensive look at the family. It examines the forms and functions of the family from foraging and hunting societies, ancient empires and feudal societies to the contemporary family. It describes how the various cultures of...

THE WAR IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999 500 pp., hb, $49.95 This detailed review and analysis of the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 is the work of two American political scientists, Professors Steven L. Burg...

The World of 2044.(Review)
December 1, 1999... During the next five decades, scientific discoveries and technological innovations are going to affect the lives and self-images of individuals and the forms and values of society and government more radically than in any previous half-century....