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Coping With Chaos: Promoting Democracy & Regional Stability in the Post-Counterinsurgency Era

Regional crises with a humanitarian twist will become a major focus of national security policy in the post-Cold War era. Many LDCs threaten to become ungovernable, overwhelmed by population growth, economic decline and breakdown of social order. Intervention in one form or another may be forced on a world community unwilling to endure the anguished faces of cyclical tragedies. Neither CNN nor pressure group politics will permit national leaders to claim "we didn't know" to excuse inaction. For the longer term, the $4-5 billion required increase in international community contributions to fami…