ABSTRACT
The three works: Peter G. Boyle's American-Soviet Relations; Paul Joseph's Peace Politics; and J. Martin Rochester's Waiting for the Millennium, concentrate on various features of the international world. The contrast between the three works show a range of contemporary academic thinking on various aspects of the international affairs. Both Rochester and Joseph write about the current transformation of international relations following the end of the cold war. Boyle concentrates on the dyadic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union and thereby reviews events leading to, and resulting in the collapse of the cold war. J. Martin Rochester takes yet another vantage point. He is interested in the role of the United Nations in the contemporary international context. The military principles of the cold war world system rested on a strategic arsenal of nuclear weapons, a large commitment of United States troops in NATO, and interventionary capability in the Third World.
