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...sorrow of divided nations is in the air. Rwanda and South Africa, Bosnia and Palestine have taken up permanent residence in newspaper headlines and on the television newscasts. Violence and strife between ethnic and racial groups seem staples of the post-Cold War world. With the world's attention fixed on the Balkans, hardly anyone remembers that the island of Cyprus, a country near Bosnia, has been living with the harsh realities of division and conflict for over 20 years. With a view to remedying this situation, Harvard is hosting a conference this weekend entitled "Cyprus and Its People...
Along the way, their pusillanimous policies have discredited all the institutions that touched the conflict. The UN, in the midst of a post-Cold Wal renaissance when the Yugoslav conflict began, now stands guilty of abetting Serb aggression. NATO, fresh from victory against the Warsaw pact has shown itself impotent in its own backyard...
That proximity to the President makes her a formidable force for influencing the U.N.'s expanding role in the post-cold war era. "At this stage in world history," Albright says, "practically every foreign-policy issue has something to do with the U.N. It puts me in the wonderful position of being there at the takeoff, during flight and at the landing." Plus the chance to drop a few rhetorical bombs along...
...respect may be forgiven if it is unimpressed with a leader so patently averse to using it. In Clinton's world, intellectual effort is too often directed at blaming others. The President portrays himself variously as the victim of a public that fears change, a cynical post-Watergate nation or the fractionated, post-cold war world. What happens now that U.S. marines have drawn Haitian blood? If the Haiti policy doesn't go well, the Administration will revert to the story it had already begun retailing on "deep background" before the deal was even struck. In that scenario Jimmy Carter...
Following a review of the nation's nuclear deterrent, the Pentagon announced it had decided to keep the current arsenal essentially intact, given the uncertainties of the post-cold war world order. By and large, U.S. nuclear forces will not be reduced beyond changes necessitated by Bush-era treaties with Moscow...