Regional orders
Subtitle: building security in a new world
By: edited by David A. Lake and Patrick M. Morgan.
Contributors: Lake, David A., 1956-; Morgan, Patrick M., 1940-; University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Regionalism (International organization); Security, International.
Description: Conflict among nations for forty-five years after World War II was dominated by the major bipolar struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. With the end of the Cold War, states in differing regions of the world are taking their affairs more into their own hands and working out new arrangements for security that best suit their needs.

This trend toward new "regional orders" is the subject of this book, which seeks both to document the emergence and strengthening of these new regional arrangements and to show how international relations theory needs to be modified to take adequate account of their salience in the world today.

The editors conclude that, in the new world of regional orders, the quest for universal principles of foreign policy by great powers like the United States is chimerical and dangerous. Regional orders differ, and policy must accommodate these differences if it is to succeed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-390) and index.
"A project of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation"--P. preceding t.p.