Synopsis The post-Cold War world has undergone a radical transformation after the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the superpower rivalry. Globalization and democratization have become catch words of the international system. The current debate over unipolarism versus multi-polarism, over an inevitable need for adopting market economy, introducing faster economic reforms as well as assessing the impact of the WTO on the political and economic future of Third World societies. This book addresses a wide range of core issues and problems at global and regional level such as new military and strategic doctrines and disarmament, nuclear deterrence, role of the UN in a new setting of power configuration as well as non-military challenges, strategic partnership between Russia and China, WTO and the Third World, revivalism of religious fundamentalism. This volume is an attempt to provide new insights and alternatives essential for a durable peace, security and well-being of humankind.