ABSTRACT

Despite an encouraging number of ceasefires, peace talks and arms control talks, warfare was still widespread in 1989, affecting nearly a fifth of the world’s states. Since 1945, most warfare has taken place in the Third World’, and most wars raging in the late 1980s were civil wars. There is no universally accepted definition of war. This map includes wars defined politically-armed unrest involving quasi-military structures, as in Northern Ireland-as well as wars defined by high death tolls.