This book brings together two major developments of the past decade: the collapse of the Soviet Union on the political side and "globalization" on the economic side. It shows that both of these drastic changes resulted in an increasing demand for regulation and guidance by international organizations, which on their side feel an increasing pressure for adjustment to the changed international agenda.

The 50th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation is commemorated in 1995. The UN emerged at the end of the most bloody war in the history of contemporary civilization and it is understandable that its founding fathers were concerned first and foremost with the need "to save succeeding gen erations from the scourge of war." This great historical mission of the new international organisation was determined and designed by the allied powers that had won the war against the "enemy states." Cooperation of the perma nent members of the UN Security Council was the basic element of the effi...

Nach der Auflosung des sozialistischen Lagers Ende der 80er / Anfang der 90er Jahre hat sich die weltpolitische und weltwirtschaftliche Lage tief- greifend verandert. Alle bisherigen Strukturierungsmuster, wie z.B. die Ein- teilung in Erste, Zweite und Dritte Welt oder die Einteilung in marktwirt- schaftlich und planwirtschaftlich organisierte Lander, erweisen sich als ebenso untauglich wie die Dichotomie von Nord und Sud mit den impliziten Unterstellungen, der "Norden" sei reich und der "Suden" sei arm. Nach dem Zusammenbruch des bipolaren Ordnungsgefuges zwischen den beiden Supermachten USA...