ABSTRACT
The agreement the United States and North Korea signed in Geneva in 1994 on North Korea’s nuclear power program may foreshadow events to come, but the post–cold War order has not fully settled into the Asia–Pacific region. The situation there remains in flux, without the landmark changes brought about elsewhere by events such as the Gulf War, German unification, and the Israel–PLO peace treaty. The transformation in global relations since the Cold War gives us useful material for our efforts to forecast the future world order. In the post–Cold War period, we must replace our hegemonic concepts of realist and neorealist thinking in international politics with a human-centered outlook. 1
