After years of relative stability in terms of both mission and membership, NATO is undergoing rapid change in both areas, primarily because of the end of the Cold War. Currently, the most important membership issue involves the inclusion of former Cold War `enemy' states from Central and Eastern...

Selected quality of life indicators are linked to international conflict in the study. The primary analytic tool used is discriminant function analysis. Increased conflict appears to be linked to general government revenue increases, but expenditure decreases, along with decline and stagnation...

This study attempts to extend to the question of political liberty a cross-time analytical approach already successfully applied to conflict. In the previous study, increases in quality of life were associated with reduced conflict. Here, increases in quality of life are predicted to be...