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It is fashionable to describe the current international scene as the ‘new world disorder’. Not only is the world in great turmoil, but allegedly it is even more dangerous. Such sentiments are not entirely wrong, but they are nevertheless misleading. The world is disorderly, but surely no more so than five, ten, or twenty years ago. And it is clearly far less dangerous.
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John Lukacs, The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age (New York: Tickner & Fields, 1993).
Carnegie Endowment National Commission, Changing Our Ways (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment, 1992) p. 1.
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Hyland, W.G. (1997). Is NATO Still Relevant?. In: Clemens, C. (eds) NATO and the Quest for Post-Cold War Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26000-3_10
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