ABSTRACT
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War at the end of 1991, there developed a widespread feeling in the United States and elsewhere that matters of nuclear arms control with Russia, and indeed military matters more generally, would be far less important in the future than in the past. Instead, it was argued, domestic economic strength and cooperation and competition among the major economic powers would become the central feature of post–Cold War international relations. This judgment was reflected in the minimal attention that military and arms control matters were given during the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign and in the increased popularity of “international political economy” and the concomitant decline in interest in “security studies” in American graduate programs in political science, international relations, and public policy.
