International Community: A Goal for the New World Order

The author assesses the prospects for a New World Order with special attention to the most urgent problems facing the world. He provides an analysis of the drastic changes that have taken place in world power centres, in the roles of balance of power and restraint, in the perils of the international arms trade, and the new role the United States can be expected to play in a new world system. In summary, the author offers steps to help create a true international community based on nations practising democracy and upholding respect for human rights.