Download or read book Understanding the Global Political Earthquake written by Manoj Soni and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents two theoretical frameworks for understanding the post-Cold War international systematic transition, and Indo-US relational patterns. The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked, in a very symbolic way, the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Since then, the intensity, drama and pace of the international events have been so staggering as to have prevented careful reflection on what the end of the Cold War means to governments and people around the world. Scholarly commentaries and incisive analysis continue to fill the press and media at large. Most seemingly agree that the crash of the Soviet Bloc marks a decisive shift in the global configuration of power, while others have categorically envisioned a multipolar world; still others have addressed any one or combination of issues and repurcussion consequent of the end of the Cold War. Yet all of these studies have been limited in their scope - both in terms of geographically Eurocentric focus and in their terms of inquiry as being concerned with only a few of the core and peripheral issues. This book fills this the gap.The frameworks presented in this book explain the causal determinants of the current international systematic transition and foreign policy in a comparative perspective. It thus provides very powerful tools to not only gauge the present transition but also to develop warning systems to decipher symptoms of any future international systematic transition of foreign policy behaviour.