Vent outbreaks in such hot spots will take different forms in the changed international situation.Ī potentially revolutionary change in world politics has been a de facto redefinition of “international conflict.” International conflict still includes the old-fashioned war, a violent confrontation between nation states acting through their own armed forces or proxies with at least one state fighting outside its borders. It seems likely, though, that efforts to pre. It is still too soon to tell whether this shift in the most lethal type of warfare is a lasting change: the continued presence of contested borders between militarily potent states-in Korea, Kashmir, Taiwan, and the Middle East-gives reason to postpone judgment. Subnational ethnic and religious conflicts, however, have been so intense that the first post-Cold War decade was marked by enough deadly lower-intensity conflicts to make it the bloodiest since the advent of nuclear weapons (Wallensteen and Sollenberg, 1996). One indication of change is the noteworthy decrease in the frequency and death toll of international wars in the 1990s. These transformations are changing much in the world, including, it seems, the shape of organized violence and the ways in which governments and others try to set its limits. The list of potentially epoch-making changes is familiar by now: the end of an era of bipolarity, a new wave of democratization, increasing globalization of information and economic power, more frequent efforts at international coordination of security policy, a rash of sometimes-violent expressions of claims to rights based on cultural identity, and a redefinition of sovereignty that imposes on states new responsibilities to their citizens and the world community. Old patterns have come unstuck, and if new patterns are emerging, it is still too soon to define them clearly. An old system is gone and, although it is easy to identify what has changed, it is not yet clear that a new system has taken its place. The world has transformed rapidly in the decade since the end of the Cold War. Committee on International Conflict Resolution
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