Journal of International Affairs articles from January 1993

Journal of International Affairs archives from January 1993

Setting a new agenda for the United Nations: Boutros Boutros-Ghali. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century) (Interview)
January 1, 1993... Since taking office in January 1992, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has attempted to redifine the role of the United Nations in peacekeeping, peacemaking and preventive diplomacy. An Agenda for Peace outlines his plan for...

Collective security in Europe after the Cold War. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's eye of disaster. We shall see...

New world disorder: a critique of the United Nations. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... For over 40 years, the Cold War conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union paralyzed the peacekeeping functions of the United Nations. With few exceptions, the United Nations and other multinational organizations were ineffective...

The making of a security community: the United Nations after the Cold War. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... In passing from the Cold War to the present, the old alliances of East and West have traded the angst of doomsday for the complexity of community living. During the Cold War period, so long as the alliances' security policies were dictated by...

Enforcing environmental security: the challenges of compliance with international obligations. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... Humanity stands at a defining moment in history. We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening, of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on...

New conflicts, new challenges: the evolving role for non-governmental actors. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... The post-Cold War period marks the downfall of the bipolar paradigm that had governed the understanding and conduct of international relations since the end of the Second World War. This period has been dominated by the outbreak of new types of...

Building the peace: preliminary lessons from El Salvador. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... When the peace agreement ending 12 years of civil war in El Salvador was signed at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City in January 1992, it was declared by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to be "a revolution achieved by...

Regionalism and the quest for security: ASEAN and the Cambodian conflict. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... The reordering of the international system in the absence of a hegemonic war has revitalized the debate on the nature of international politics, and the continued relevance of the realist paradigm.(2) Critics of the realist paradigm contend...

Post-Cold War state disintegration: the failure of international conflict resolution in Afghanistan. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... On the evening of 18 March 1992, President Najibullah of Afghanistan interrupted normal radio and television broadcasts with a dramatic speech. "I agree," he announced, "that once an understanding is reached through the United Nations process...

Raising standards: America's challenge in the post-Cold War world. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... For America, the initial round of post-Cold War analysis and introspection has drawn to a close. The recent presidential election results validated Bill Clinton's central thesis of the primacy of economic concerns, and the corollary that...

Kant and the illusion of collective security. (Immanuel Kant) (The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay) (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
January 1, 1993... Observing the destructive impact of the seventeenth century European wars of religion, Thomas Hobbes concluded that man by himself is incapable of preserving peace and order. He assumed that peace could only be established if a strong monopoly...

Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics.
January 1, 1993... The two books under review approach the matter of conflict resolution in the twenty-first century in quite different ways. Taken together, they demonstrate the wide range of challenges and opportunities facing the world's statesmen in the...

Intermediaries in International Conflict.
January 1, 1993... The two books under review approach the matter of conflict resolution in the twenty-first century in quite different ways. Taken together, they demonstrate the wide range of challenges and opportunities facing the world's statesmen in the...

The New World Order: Rethinking America's Global Role.
January 1, 1993... How should scholars and policy makers be thinking about conflict, conflict resolution and national security on the eve of the twenty-first century? The Cold War is over and the assumptions about the world and world politics that prevailed...

Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security.
January 1, 1993... The demise of the Soviet Union and the end of bipolarity have brought into sharper relief the need for a broadening of the theoretical debate in international relations as well as a reassessment of the foreign policies it informs. Adding to the...

Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions.
January 1, 1993... Lisa Martin's Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions is an ambitious book that will be of great interest to both theorists and practitioners of international relations. The subject of economic sanctions, of course, is...

The Cold War Is over, Again.
January 1, 1993... Now and then one reads an obituary for someone long thought dead. In The Cold War is Over - Again, a wide-ranging and insightful meditation on East-West relations, Allen Lynch argues that the Cold War has been dead for 20 to 30 years, and that...

The British Military Dilemma in Ireland: Occupation Politics, 1886-1914.
January 1, 1993... The 1914 refusal by British troops to fire on Irish loyalists, known as the Curragh Mutiny, was the culmination of years of conflict and mistrust among the British military, the War Office in London and the British-supported bureaucracy at...

The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era.
January 1, 1993... Can Japan change from a country committed solely to commercial interests to an international leader capable of providing for regional security? Kenneth Pyle poses this question, and, although he avoids answering it directly, he lays the...

Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War.
January 1, 1993... In his autobiography, A Child of the Century, the American journalist and author Ben Hecht pointed out that trying to read history in the pages of a newspaper is like trying to tell time with a watch that has only a second hand. Dilip Hiro's...