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After the Cold War: Essays on the Emerging World Order

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Having just completed reading "After the Cold War - Essays on the Emerging World Order" by Keith Lepor, I am still wondering whether Emerging World Disorder would not have better reflected the contents of this very good book. I found it to be a fascinating and thought provoking book. Twenty world leaders from the different parts of the planet who are playing, or have recently played, significant roles in shaping our new world, each providing a unique observation angle. As may be expected, some of the essays are better written and are more insightful and exciting than others. However the variety in backgrounds, style, spice, and originality, results in a vary tasty dish indeed. Althogh the overall impression is of a pretty chaotic emerging world, I found myself quite optimistic regarding the perceived shape of things to come. In particular, many of the common themes that most of the leaders agree upon are related to intenational cooperation at a regional and global levels, restructuring parts of the UN, and the need to redefine the notion of Security to include all aspects of human existance. Overall, an excellent initiative by Mr. Lepor. Excellent (and probably unprecedented) job! What would I have done differently? Well, perhaps tried to twist the arm of an Israeli leader to provide an essay and thus counter the significant ( and in some cases somewhat extreme) Muslim contributions. Tariq Aziz, Benazir Bhutto, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Osama El-Baz, Rachid Ghannouchi, Kamal Kharrazi, and Muammar El-Qadhafi : 7 out of the 20 world leaders are Muslim - a shape of things to come? Also, I would have considered incorporating at the end of a book an essay by an known International-Relations expert, to reflects on, summarize, and analyse the content of the the leaders' essays. Who knows, perhaps the world would have then seem more "orderly" to me... I doubt it.