The author examines the Soviet Union and its former satellites, Japan, and the United States to determine what the future will bring for these countries.
Argues that the problem of child soldiers being used by countries around the world has been oversimplified by humanitarian and government groups, drawing on examples from Sierra Leone, Palestine, and Eastern Europe to prove that child soldiers are not merely helpless victims.
Describes what the United States and its international allies did and did not do in the face of state-sponsored slaughter in the last decade of the twentieth century in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor.
Presents a monthly and daily chronology of events for every year from 1995 through 1999, covering social, economic, and political developments in the U.S. and around the world, and includes name and subject indexes.
