Regional Associations in the Contemporary World

One of the most notable features of present-day international relations is the proliferation and flourishing of regional associations, which we may loosely define as more or less formally constituted and elaborately organized mechanisms created and maintained by a self-selected group of states which have, or feel that they have, a particular basis for intimacy of interrelationship

The New International Security Order: Changing Concepts

Perhaps it is true that there is nothing new under the sun. Certainly, the list of problems that the world now faces as it strives for order, security, stability, and peace is not an altogether new one. Along with elements of novelty, it includes modified versions of the perennials of international politics and resurgent problems come back from the past to haunt us; in some eight decades, we have gone from Sarajevo to Sarajevo

The U.S. & Changing Approaches to National Security & World Order

Before we can sense of the emerging changes in approach to national security and world order, we must understand the changes that have recently taken place in the scope and focus of the field of international relations. That understanding requires that we 6rst note some basic features of traditional international relations. So long as there have been states, they have interacted with each other. Indeed, the term international relations is a historically established misnomer, for it has always referred to relations not among nations but among states. Its domain has been the external behavior of states, their impingements upon each other. It has included the cooperation and alliance patterns developed among states, and it has been even more concerned with their frictions, disputes, and clashes. The major focus of international relations has been on wars among states and on their efforts to prepare for, prevent, win, terminate, and recover from those struggles

Discussions and Reviews : Problems of inter-American neighborliness: a review Bryce Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy William Manger, Pan America in Crisis: The Future of the OAS

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