Flashpoints

"At the dawn of a new political era, the world is witnessing both violent upheaval and new opportunity on a scale unknown since the discovery of the New World. Reporting from all six inhabited continents, with new material on the Soviet Union's collapse, award-winning journalists Robin Wright and Doyle McManus draw a vivid map of emerging trends that will shape the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.