International Journal on World Peace articles from March 2000

International Journal on World Peace archives from March 2000

RETHINKING WORLD GOVERNMENT: A NEW APPROACH.
March 1, 2000... While it is clear that a world government would considerably reduce the threat of nuclear war, only a very tiny minority of world government advocates believes that this advantage outweighs the countervailing disadvantage that such...

TRANSITIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN GREECE.
March 1, 2000... In July 1974 democracy was restored in Greece. Even though ancient Greece is the birthplace of democracy, the history of modern Greece, has been characterized by instability. The paper is divided into three parts. The first considers the...

WOMEN MOBILIZING FOR PEACE: AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESPONSES TO AFRICAN CRISES.
March 1, 2000... Many of the new African-American and African alliances for peace may hold tremendous promise. During the 1990s, African countries formerly caught in the vortex of cold war politics began to deal with the many unresolved conflicts, wars, and...

RUSSIANS CAPTURE GROZNY.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... On February 1, 2000 the Russian flag flew over the ruins of Chechnya's capital as thousands of rebel fighters, with their top commanders killed or wounded, fled to the mountains to regroup. There was no sign that Grozny's civilian residents...

CHINA WORRIES US SECURITY ANALYSTS.(North Korea continues to receive missile technology)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... China is continuing to supply materials for North Korea's long range missile program despite promises to the contrary. Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz explained that a Hong Kong company was being used to send Chinese missle-related goods...

MILLION MOMS' MARCH AGAINST HANDGUNS PLANNED FOR MOTHER'S DAY.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Every day, 12 children die from gunshot wounds in the United States. It is the horror of events like Columbine that grab the news headlines, but these daily deaths are even more commonplace than a dramatic school shooting. Lives are destroyed...

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION AND WORLD POLITICS: DOMINATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND DISCOURSE.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Tehranian, Majid Lynne Rienner: Boulder, 1999 218 pages, cloth, $49.95, paper $19.95 Tehranian's treatise on the polities of global communication is indeed timely and worthy of intense examination. What makes this book so...

CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS IN ETHNO-POLITICAL AND CENTER-PERIPHERY RELATIONS IN RUSSIA & SOVEREIGNTY AFTER EMPIRE: SELF-DETERMINATION MOVEMENTS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.(Emil Payin )(Review)
March 1, 2000... Jeremy Azrael and Emil Payin (Eds) Santa Monica, CA/ RAND, 1998 53pp. pbk., $10.00 SOVEREIGNTY AFTER EMPIRE: SELF-DETERMINATION MOVEMENTS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION Galina Starovoitova Washington, DC: US Institute of...

MOZAMBIQUE: UN PEACE-KEEPING IN ACTION, 1992-1994.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Richard Synge Washington D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press, 1997 221 pages Since 1960 when most African states became independent, the continent of Africa has experienced over thirty (30) major conflicts. All were...

A HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TERMINOLOGY.(Review)
March 1, 2000... H. Victor Cond[acute{e}] Lincoln-London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999 Xxviii + 201 pages, cloth, $35.00 Most compendiums, dictionaries and reference books are met by readers with a feeling of relief and appreciation, as they...

MASSES IN FLIGHT, THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998 pp. xxi + 414, $22.95 paper, $52.95 hardcover Responding to practical and urgent need, the secretary general of the United Nations appointed in...