ABSTRACT

Political transformations in the last three decades have swept authoritarian and totalitarian governments into a new array of emerging democracies unversed in democratic forms and processes. Released to express their nationalist fervor, peoples in these newlydemocratic states have tended to generate strife within and among themselves, rather than reap the promise of a democratic peace. Equally profound economic change has tailed political conversion, sharpening and directing the pangs of change of unaccustomed forces of capitalism, exaggerating cultural differences, and creating zig-zag paths to growth and development. Accompanied by increasing technological sophistication swiftly sweeping the world economy from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, dynamic expectations and market demands are washing away the old paradigms of mass production, leaving in their wake new forms of organizations who continue to struggle to keep up with extraordinarily diffuse and vigorous market metamorphoses.