Distant Thunder: Third World Conflict and the New International Order

by Donald M. Snow

Distant Thunder examines violent conflict in the Third World, its threat to international peace, and its challenges for U.S. foreign policy-making. It explores the problems resulting from the crisis of political legitimacy of Third World governments, as well as problems resulting from economic instability and social discord. With careful attention to the changes in the international environment that have followed the end of the Cold War, Donald Snow considers the implications of internal violence within Third World countries and discusses the dangers of regional conflict among Third World countries. He examines the prospects for controlling Third World conflict through counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and international peacekeeping and peacemaking forces. Included in the book are case studies of the Shining Path movement in Peru and the conflict in the Persian Gulf. Snow takes a politically moderate view that is primarily concerned with how Third World conflict is important for U.S. and international security.

226 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1992