There will be a brief period of opportunity, perhaps a decade, in which the post-Cold War world can make use of the present 'new concert of powers'. "If this new system is not firmly established... the world may again lapse into a balance of power or an unworkable multipolar deterrence by the year 2000".
Richard Rosecrance is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director?Designate of the U.C.L.A. Center for International Relations.
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