CONTENTS
Introduction = 1
Part One : Disintegration of the Cold War Coalitions
1. The Weakening of the Foundations = 7
Cornerstone Premises of the Cold War Coalitions = 8
The New Fragmentation of Military Security = 9
The Slackening of Ideological Bonds = 20
2. Strains in the Anticommunist Coalition : The Rise of Nonmilitary Issues = 29
Effects of the Decline in Security Concerns = 29
Growing Tensions in the Economic Realm : Multipolarity and Interdependence = 33
The Pull of Demestic Problems = 42
3. Cracks in the Soviet Sphere = 45
Destalinization and Desatellization = 46
Ramifications of the SinoSoviet Split = 50
The Future of the Socialist Commonwealth in Europe = 54
4. Spans across the Ideological Divide = 66
Economic Ties between Russia and America = 67
Openings in the Great Wall of China = 78
Dangers and Opportunities in Europe = 84
5. NorthSouth Tensions = 93
Legacies of Cold War Neocolonialism = 94
The Group of Seventyseven = 103
New Opportunities for Selective Leverage = 104
LongTerm Prospects = 106
6. The Emerging System of Multiple Coalitions = 109
The Dominant Tendencies = 109
The Emerging International System = 112
Part Two : Challenges to the NationState System
7. The Impact of Technology on Community = 123
Primacy of the NationState System = 124
Incapacities of the Existing system = 125
8. Economic Transnationalism = 144
Ecomonic Challenges to the Autonomy of the NationState = 144
Alternative Political Responses = 151
9. Cultural Pressures on the NationState = 161
Cosmopolitanism = 161
The Affluent Counterculture = 163
Ethnicity = 171
The Intersection of Countercultures = 178
Part Three : Prognosis and Prescription
10. The Transformation of World Politics = 185
The Evolving Polyarchy = 186
Regionalism as an Alternative = 190
Constructing a Political Framework for World Community = 197
11. Policy Opportunities for the United States = 208
Constructive Statemanship for the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century = 209
The Role of the United States = 210
Index = 217