ABSTRACT
During the early part of the 1980s the world has been facing a remilitarization of international relations. Shows-of-force and the use of physical coercion have proliferated as means of achieving objectives, as confrontations in the Falklands, Lebanon, Nicaragua, and Grenada painfully illustrate. The pendulum seems to have swung away from detente and the dominance of the economic North-South split back to the Cold War and the supremacy of the military East-West split. Recent events have indicated that this trend may be pervasive globally and not restricted to the Reagan Administration, the United States, or even the superpowers.
