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Zusatztext This collection of essays is an interesting and timely work! raising some of the most salient issues regarding security after the end of the Cold War. Klappentext In this book regional security after the Cold War is examined under the major headings of `Containing Regional Conflict' and `Containing Regional Technology'. The general prospects for, and methods of, US-Russian co-operation are analysed. Specific case studies of Somalia and the Balkan states illustrate the new problems of regional security. Zusammenfassung This is the second volume of a two-part study on international issues in the post cold-war era. Ten authors consider regional conflicts, how relations among the great powers could be affected by such conflicts and how co-operation among the leading nations, especially Russia and the United States, might influence the course of regional strife.The end of the cold war closed one chapter in history - the global struggle between the USA and USSR. It has not brought an end to regional conflicts. This volume analyses three broad categories of regional conflicts:* Countries in the developing world where US and Russian interests are more or less equally engaged * Countries of special interest to one or more of the great powers, and * Countries where there is no overriding Russian or US national security interest. The challenge to US-Russian co-operation is examined under the major headings of preventive diplomacy in an era of high technology, dilemmas of US-Russian security co-operation and international security organizations as instruments for great power co-operation.
