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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE CREATED A NEED AND OPPORTUNITY FOR RESTATING THE TRADITIONAL REALIST VIEW OF THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. IN AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW THAT PRE-WALTZIAN REALISTS HAD MUCH TO SAY ABOUT INSTITUTIONS, THIS ESSAY REVIEWS THE NEOREALIST /NEOLIBERAL DEBATE OVER INSTITUTIONS, CLARIFIES THE BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL REALISM AND NEOREALISM, AND RESURFACES TRADITIONAL REALIST ARGUMENTS CONCERNING THE NEOREALISM, AND RESURFACES TRADITIONAL REALIST ARGUMENTS CONCERNING THE EFFECTS OF STATE POWER AND INTEREST ON INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND GLOBAL ORDER. COMBINING INSIGHTS F BOTH TRADITIONAL REALISM AND NEOREALISM, AND MODEL IS CONSTRUCTED THAT CONSIDERS HOW THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STATES, THEIR INTERACTIONS, AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FACILITATE UNDERSTANDING THE WAYS IN WHICH POWER WILL BE EXERCISED, THE TYPE OF GLOBAL ORDER THAT WILL BE PRODUCED, AND THE LEVEL OF GLOBAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION THAT CAN BE EXPECTED.

Examines Latin America's role as a regional subsystem within the larger global system of liberalized trade and more cooperative political relations; includes NAFTA and other regional organizations; since 1990, chiefly.

Whether global electronic connections make citizens more aware of world problems and more able to contribute to their solutions; implications for US foreign relations. Information supply and demand, TV and print media, interactivity and virtuality, and bottom-up or top-down US diplomacy.

Explores hypothesis that people have become more analytically and emotionally capable of assessing events and taking political actions; argues that continued expansion of electronic and communications technologies will link people democratically, but may also foster fragmentation of communities.

THIS PAPER SUGGESTS THAT THE IDEA OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY BEARS BOTH ANALYTICAL AND NORMATIVE PROMISES FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. IT OPENS WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE CENTRAL ROLE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN ITS GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT. IT THEN EXPLORES THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY, HIGHLIGHTING THE LIMITATIONS OF A DOMESTICALLY-BOUND APPROACH TO THE IDEA OF CIVIL SOCIETY. SOME OF THE NORMATIVE IMPLICATIONS OF A REVISED UNDERSTANDING OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ARE PUT FORWARD.

A lecture presented at Durham U (England) in Nov 1995 explores transformations of capital-labor relations following the post-Cold War crisis of Fordism. Various responses to this crisis have brought about radical restructurings of the world's economic hierarchy. One consequence has been the creation of continental economic blocs made up of countries with widely varying labor relations. The US-dominated bloc has emphasized strict control of the production process, while creating more flexibility in labor relations. The other blocs, comprising European & Asian countries, have preferred to trade management control over production for greater worker participation. The latter method shown to be more difficult to implement, but it is more efficient & renders a higher quality of production & labor benefits. An unintended ecological consequence of the restructuring is more support for global restrictions on the pollution that causes the greenhouse effect. 4 Tables, 5 Figures, 61 References. Adapted from the source document.

INDIA IS COMPARATIVELY RARE AMONG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN HAVING MAINTAINED A LONG TRADITION OF LIBERAL POLITICAL DEMOCRACY, WITH ONLY BRIEF INTERRUPTION, SINCE INDEPENDENCE. IN CONTRAST, ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN INDIA HAS BEEN A RECENT PROCESS. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN INDIA AND THEN ITS DEVELOPMENTAL MODEL--THE "NEHRU-MAHALANOBIS" MODEL OF PLANNED MIXED ECONOMY. IT CONCLUDES THAT DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE ARE SIGNIFICANT FACTORS IN SHAPING INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND LENDING POLICY; BUT SEEMINGLY FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT FOR SOME STATES THAN OTHERS IN THE EYES OF THOSE CHARGED WITH MONITORING IT.