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About the International Monetary System, by Benjamin J. Cohen
The outlook for the world financial system is clouded by a variety of problems - volatility of floating exchange rates, inefficient management of the multiple-reserve-asset standard, the massive burden of balance-of-payments financing. No doubt it would be excessively pessimistic, not to say alarmist, to predict outright collapse: the system has shown considerable resiliency, after all, in recent years. The potential for improvement exists in our international monetary arrangements, but it is not infinite. The system could be better managed, both efficiency and consistency could be promoted. Why not begin? But nothing can ensure that monetary relations will always remain stable and free of policy conflict. So long as there will be politically sovereign states and formally independent national currencies, there will be international monetary problems.

Sechs Beiträge der CEREDAF Konferenz (27.-29. November 1986) in Paris, die sich mit der geostrategischen Situation Afghanistans, der sowjetischen Besetzung und der Außenpolitik Afghanistans beschäftigen: Milan L. Hauner: Soviet geostrategic position in the Southern Tier and the occupation of Afghanistan; Alexandre Bennigsen: L'Asie Centrale Sovietique durant la periode 1956-1986; Anthony Arnold: Parallels and divergences between the US experience in Vietnam and the Soviet experience in Afghanistan; Günther Knabe: The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Louis Dupree: Myth and reality in Afghan "neutralism"; Raja Ehsan Aziz: Pakistan's relations with Afghanistan. (DÜI-Sdt)