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Human Security snd Mutual Vulneralbility
To a casual observer of international events, sitting in the comfort of a corporate
office, the post-1989 world order may seem like a string of good news. From a
conventional point of view, the present appears to contain few security threats.
After all, the end of the East-West conflict means that the possibilities of a
nuclear holocaust have all but disappeared. The disintegration of the Soviet Union
and the demise of communism could be seen as the global victory of political and
economic liberalism