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...

The United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) is to be held in Vienna, 20–31 August 1979. The present article arises from the author’s work at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) on the preparations for this conference.