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Article: Good intentions, complex realities.(Building Sustainable Peace)(Book Review)
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- July 1, 2004
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Building Sustainable Peace
Edited by Tom Keating and W. Andy Knight
United Nations University Press
Tokyo / New York / Paris
When the Cold War effectively ended some 15 years ago, there was great hope that the world would soon move into a new era of peace and prosperity.
The superpowers, it was reasoned, would spend less on nuclear arms and other weapons, freeing funds for peaceful development. Moreover, it was felt, they would also be less likely to instigate and fuel the proxy wars that raged in many parts of the world as ideological tensions were played out.
But the post-Cold War era "has proven to be the world's ...