Global Shock
January, 2000
Conflict and disorder around the globe seem constant, and all too often each new event comes as a surprise to national leaders. No wonder. Policymakers are caught off guard because of a Western conceit that the Cold War's end was definitive for everyone and therefore should have produced a peace dividend. For much of the world, this is not a post-Cold War era but rather a postcolonial one marked by continuing struggles to throw off the social, economic and territorial bonds forged earlier by Wes...
