The End of the New World Order Asia's collapse, followed by the financial disaster in Russia, has definitively banished New World Order ideology. The history of the post-Cold War world now begins in earnest. The immediate question is Russia, but the most important question overall is the relationship of the United States to Asia, and specifically to Japan. Global Intelligence Update, August 31, 1998. Indonesia Faces Potential Famine Reports indicate that Indonesia is now facing impending food shortages, due to depleted rice supplies, failed harvests, and distribution problems.
Analysts fear greater civil unrest and a renewed power struggle at the highest levels of government.
Global Intelligence Update, September 3, 1998. Although Clinton subsenquently introduced lesser sanctions against Russian companies, his policy forgoes several broad restrictions passed by Congress. By Richard Speier, Carnegie Endowment Proliferation Brief, August 27, 1998. By Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment Proliferation Brief, August 31, 1998. September 1 and 2, 1998.