ABSTRACT
The end of the Cold War has had many positive consequences, but many new security problems have also emerged in its wake. The good news is a lowered likelihood of war, nuclear or conventional, between East and West. Ideological issues have receded as a cause of military tension. The prospect that a single power can or will dominate the Eurasian continent has effectively disappeared. This chapter examines the new demands and the new opportunities for the multilateral management of international security. It focuses on new security problems including the spread of deadly technologies, the break-up of the Soviet Union, and ethnic disputes whose effective management demands multilateral co-operation. Nuclear proliferation is the issue on which Soviet-American cooperation, continuing since the mid-1960s, has been well established. In negotiations of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NPT Review Conferences and IAEA conferences, and in all of the related dealings since then, the Soviet and American delegations have been repeatedly perceived as close conspirators.
