ABSTRACT
The passing of the Cold War has released forces for change in world politics that are quite different from those that animated the Cold War period itself. A resurgence of national and ethnic separatism points towards the dismemberment of states which have survived intact since the settlements of 1945, and in some cases since those of 1919. Simultaneously, we are witnessing the emergence of forms of international collaboration, particularly in the economic realm, in which states surrender to supranational institutions aspects of authority which have been regarded as ineliminable aspects of sovereignty.
