Conflict and crisis in the post-cold war world

Provides an overview of the post-colonial wars in the southern African countries of Angola and Mozambique, discussing the history of the conflicts, the issues, tactics, and negotiations involved, and the participants on both sides of the crises, and including an update on conditions as they stand in the late 1990s.

Examines the internal conflict that has been raging in Algeria since the early 1990s between Islamic militants and government security forces, looking at the scriptural and historical roots of both Islamic and secular Algerian thought, and analyzing the various issues the parties to the conflict are fighting over.

Introduces the history, participants, issues, tactics, and diplomacy of the hundred-year conflict between Palestine and Israel, and offers support for the claim that the struggle is the historical product of nineteenth and twentieth century politics.