Weapons Proliferation and World Order After the Cold War

Nuclear Weapons and the Second World War

Since the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have captured the attention of social scientists and the public alike. Some argue that the world benefits from nuclear weapons, claiming that they prevent war. Skeptics do not share this view and worry that nuclear weapons will only intensify conflict. Unfortunately, most theories about the benefits of nuclear weapons await judge...

Neither Hype nor Complacency: Wmd Proliferation after the Cold War

Dr. Harald Müller is Director of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt. An earlier draft of this paper was prepared for the Aspen Strategy Group Workshop on the “Challenges of Nuclear and Biological Weapons Proliferation,” Aspen, Colorado, August 10-15, 1996. All nuclear weapons programs that concern us today date back to the time of the East-West conflict. The same applies to chemical and ...

Challenges facing UNCTAD in the International Trade Trends: Before and After the Cold War

The article depicts the situation before Cold War in which developing countries (DCs) and least Developed countries (LDCs) found themselves big loser, as they were deprived from participation in trade negotiation process, leading into establishment of GATT . Therefore, they resorted to UNCTAD  as the sole defender of their interests against Developed Countries in trade negotiations. UNCTAD has ...

DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION Beyond Anarchy? Third World Instability and International Order After the Cold War

dialectic of war and world order

the purpose of this paper is to apply ibn-khaldun’s dialectic of asabiyya to explain the nature of relationship between war and the world order in the modern era via ‘macro structural change’. it is argued here that these changes in the world order in the modern times have a dialectical relationship with war. here, ibn-khaldun’s approach to historical change is applied for the explication of th...