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Description based on: FY 1989; title from cover. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Effectiveness in resolving conflicts. Assesses US to deter military action against its Middle Eastern allies, 1960-80.

Presents the Mohonk Criteria for Humanitarian Assistance in
Complex Emergencies, produced by the Task Force on Ethical and Legal
Issues in Humanitarian Assistance, convened by the Program on
Humanitarian Assistance at the World Conference on Religion and Peace,
as guidelines for co‐operative relationships between political,
humanitarian and military actors in complex humanitarian emergencies
created by armed conflict.

PEOPLE MOW LIVE IN A HISTORICAL PERIOD CHARACTERIZED BY A GLOBAL "WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION." THEY CAN DEBATE WHETHER IT CONSTITUTES A "THIRD" OR RATHER A "FOURTH" WAVE IN THE MODERN ERA, BUT THERE'S NO DENYING THAT THE NUMBER OF NATIONS ADOPTING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND PROCEDURES IN RECENT YEARS HAS GROWN CONSIDERABLY. IT MAY BE THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A MAJORITY OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION LIVES UNDER A POLITICAL REGIME ONE CAN CAUTIOUSLY CALL "DEMOCRATIC." THE TRANSITION FROM AUTOCRACY OR ANARCHY TO DEMOCRACY, AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, DEPENDS LARGELY ON FACTORS INTERNAL TO EACH POLITY. "TRANSITOLOGIESTS" HAVE IDENTIFIED SOME OF THESE FACTORS, BUT THERE'S LITTLE CONSENSUS YET OVER THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE AND INTERPLAY. BUT THESE FACTORS ARE ALSO LINKED TO INFLUENCES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT. SOME BELIEVE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE CURRENT WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION REPRESENTS MERELY A "CONTAGION" PASSING FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER.