Introduction : thinking about world security. World interests and the changing dimensions of security / Seyom Brown
Great powers and world peace / Daniel N. Nelson
Democratization around the globe : opportunities and risks / Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C. Schmitter
The dynamics of revolutionary change in Russia and the former Soviet Union / Michael McFaul
The second nuclear era : nuclear weapons in a transformed world / Allan S. Krass
Nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation policy in the 1990s / Zachary S. Davis
Adding fuel to the fires : the conventional arms trade in the 1990s / Michael T. Klare
Regional conflicts in the post-cold war era : causes, dynamics, and modes of resolution / Louis Kriesberg
Ethnic and nationalist conflict / Donald L. Horowitz
Maintaining international peace and security : UN peacekeeping and peacemaking / Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst.
(Cont.) Demilitarizing the third world / Nicole Ball
International human rights after the Cold War / Jack Donnelly
Global violence against women : the challenge to human rights and development / Charlotte Bunch and Roxanna Carrillo
The environment and international security / Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Environmental scarcity and intergroup conflict / Thomas Homer-Dixon
Demographic change and ecological insecurity / Dennis Pirages
Global debt and third world development / Vincent Ferraro and Melissa Rosser
World hunger : a scarcity of food or a scarcity of democracy? / Joseph Collins
Building world security : the need for strengthened international institutions / Robert C. Johansen.