THE REAL WORLD ORDER

by Singer, Max; Wildavsky, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9781566430319
• ISBN10: 1566430313
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

&BAD:"Singer and Wildavsky's distinction between a zone of peace and a zone of turmoil resonates as a crisp and straightforward distinction that possesses much explanatory power and is embedded in a deep political insight. That distinction is, in my opinion, destined to become the way we think of the new world order. I know of no recent book that competes with this one for its scope and vision combined with nontechnical analysis.&BAD:"&BAD:-Bruce Bueno de MesquitaSilver Professor of Politics at New York University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Table of Contents

List of Tables	x
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Part I: The Real World Order
A Tale of Two Worlds	3	(13)
Why We Will Be Better Off	9	(7)
Democracy and Modern Wealth Are New in the World	16	(23)
Democracy and Peace	22	(2)
International Relations in the New ``No-War'' Parts of the World	24	(3)
The New World of Geo-Economic Conflict	27	(2)
Objections	29	(2)
Internal Divisions within States	31	(1)
Power in the New World	31	(2)
A Basis for Peace?	33	(2)
Expanding the Zones of Peace and Democracy	35	(1)
How Much of an Exception Is the U.S. Civil War?	36	(3)
Zones of Turmoil and Development	39	(24)
Overall Perspective	40	(2)
Military Facts	42	(5)
New Influences	47	(1)
Economic Development	48	(6)
The Development of Democracy	54	(5)
Five New Forces	59	(4)
What Difference Do Nuclear Weapons Make?	63	(17)
Nuclear Weapons and the Relationship between Zones of Turmoil and Zones of Peace	65	(5)
Nuclear Weapons in the Zones of Turmoil	70	(4)
Two Possibilities for the Future	74	(6)
What the Last World Order Left Behind	80	(27)
The Fallacy of Normalcy	81	(2)
The Future of the Former Soviet Union	83	(2)
Russian Prospects	85	(9)
Revulsion against Communism	94	(1)
Russia's Foreign Policy	95	(2)
What Happened to Soviet Power?	97	(1)
Russia's Place in the World	98	(9)
Part II: New Policy Thinking for the Real World Order
Supranations and Subnations---Rebirth of Federalism	107	(38)
Reforming the United Nations	107	(12)
A Single ``Europe'' or Two ``Europes''?	119	(7)
Two Forms of Subnationalism	126	(9)
Sample List of Members of UN Democratic Caucus and Possible Allocation of Votes	135	(10)
Policy for the Zones of Turmoil and Development	145	(33)
Will ``the South'' Be against ``the North''?	148	(2)
A Clash of Civilizations Is Not the Next Phase of World History	150	(1)
Emigration Is Not the Answer	151	(1)
U.S. Self-Interest	152	(3)
Altruism	155	(1)
Overall Perspective for Policy	156	(1)
An Allegory	157	(1)
Encourage Democracy!	158	(3)
More and Different Foreign Aid	161	(2)
Difficulties in Supporting Democracy	163	(3)
Reducing Violence	166	(5)
Making It Possible for Multiethnic States to Survive in Eastern and Southern Europe	171	(2)
The Need to Distinguish among Nationalists	173	(2)
Supporting Democracy	175	(3)
Shaping U.S. Policy on Intervention	178	(24)
A Peacetime Army for the United States	182	(3)
The Only Political-Military Superpower (Unfortunately)	185	(8)
Intervention in Specific Cases	193	(1)
What Kind of Multilateralism?	194	(4)
U.S. Leadership: Sooner and Later	198	(2)
A Willing but Careful Interventionist	200	(2)
American Foreign Policy for the Real World Order	202	(15)
Fashionable Pessimism	203	(1)
Bringing Realism Up to Date	204	(4)
Policy Suggestions Reviewed	208	(6)
The Implications of Optimism	214	(3)
Index	217