I: Introduction: Problems of Theory-Building in the Study of International Organization -- 1.1 Development of Research and Its Inadequacies -- 1.2 The Quest for New Directions in Theory Building -- 2: Sociocultural Evolution and Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.1 Research on the Changing Scale...

The article seeks to bring together perspectives of peace research and of the study of international organization. The common meeting-ground for both perspectives is the analysis of the perform ance of international organization, particularly with respect to eliminating violence in international...

This article seeks to explore the applicability of regime analysis to the collective management of East-West security relations. Using a narrow regime definition and starting from a `microscopic approach' to East-West relations which disaggregates the assumed conflict totality into various more...