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...tempting, then, to call the coming Olympics the first post-cold war Games. For two decades at least, the superpowers in particular -- the main players in the East-West struggle -- have looked on the Olympics as a way to show off their systems to the world: an extension of war by other means. Off the field, this led to constant bobbing and feinting before and during the 1980 and '84 Games in Moscow and Los Angeles. On the field, it meant the contest between nations became a competition between systems: the East Bloc called upon the efficiency and single-mindedness...
...debate over economic relations with Japan represents the first campaign issue of post-cold war politics. Its visibility in the early days of the race is a healthy sign that America is finally facing the future. What a far cry from just four years ago, when the word Japan was never uttered during the two debates between Bush and Michael Dukakis...
None of these burgeoning opportunities for the U.N. come cheap. This year's regular budget for the New York headquarters and core operations is $1.2 billion. The post-cold war boom in peacekeeping has led to eight major new operations since 1988, with costs projected to reach $1 billion this year. The Cambodia venture alone is expected to drain $1 billion-plus over the next two years, but that will be a bargain if it buys peace in that devastated land...
While Buchanan is by far the most extreme neo-isolationist to declare his candidacy, other versions of that creed are erupting all along the political spectrum. The redefinition of U.S. priorities and interests in the post-cold war world is a subject that cries out for cool debate. But what the country has been handed in the slow-starting presidential campaign is mostly warm mush...
...ADDITION to Europe's underlying desire to become a "player" again, Europeans are embarrassed by the Community's inability to respond coherently to the two major post-Cold War crises, the Gulf War and Yugoslavia...