Inauspicious Beginnings, 7: Principal Powers and International Security Institutions After the Cold War, 1989-1999

by Jacques L Vesque, Onnig Beylerian, Jacques Lévesque

"Inauspicious Beginnings" shows that at the end of the Cold War many experts in the international community expected a new world order to emerge in which international security institutions - such as the United Nations Security Council and NATO - would play a major role in preventing and ending conflicts. But while the 1990s proved to be a decade of international insecurity and major humanitarian disasters, thus demonstrating the need for a wider...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773526269
• ISBN13: 9780773526266
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"