Abstract
In his 1991 State of the Union address, President George Bush proclaimed, as was his custom, that 'we have before us the long-held promise of a New World Order' .' Like Presidents Wilson and Truman before him, President Bush sought to build a stable, lawful peace on the foundation of military victory. Many doubt whether this goal is attainable, and suspect that a more reasonable hope is, in the phrase of the editors of the New Republic, 'the chance of a less chronic disorder' in the Middle East and elsewhere.2 Even if far short of a new world order, any new orderliness would be salutary in the chaotic, unipolar confusion of our immediate post-cold war era. But even the achievement of this modest goal may remain elusive. Stanley Hoffmann has explained why collective security, as practised in the Gulf War, is unlikely to be repeated soon or often:
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