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Preface

Shortly after the manuscript for the second edition was sent off, the Gulf crisis entered a new phase as U.S. aircraft bombed Iraq.No sooner had the second edition come out than the USSR collapsed.These two events alone set the tone for the third edition, in which there is a case study of the Gulf War, analysis of the "new world order" the war was supposed to inaugurate, and consideration throughout of the meaning of our post-Cold War, post-Soviet era.Those are not the only developments that provided new material, of course.I have added or extended analysis of United Nations peacekeeping, the …