International Stability in a Multipolar World: Issues and Models for Analysis

This book presents the contributions of researchers from nine countries to an international symposium of November 1992 which was organized by the editors within the realm of a research project on International Stability supported by the VW-foundation.
The results of model analyses of stability implications of fundamental foreign policy orientations in multistate systems, and of the interplay between the build-up of military power and economic strength from the basis for a discussion on sources of conflict and instability in post-Cold War Europe. Then, new analytical approaches for crisis management and for the assessment of conventional and nuclear stability of multipolar international systems are discussed and illustrated by means of current examples. The book concludes by examining the experience with multilateral arms control, and by proposing a theory of verification.