Freedom in the World

In Niger, which also advanced from Not Free to Partly Free status, free and fair presi 6 Freedom in the World—1999-2000 Freedom in the World—1999-2000 The population of the world as estimated in mid-1999 is Partly Free: 1,529.0 million (25.58 percent of the world's 5,976.3 million persons, who reside in 192 sovereign states population) live in 60 of the states and 5 of the related and 60 related. [...] At the dawn of the new millennium, democracy and freedom are the dominant trends in Western and East-Central Europe, in the Americas, and increasingly in the Asia- Pacific region. [...] Timothy Sisk, from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, has suggested, much of the upsurge in strife and violence that occurred in the aftermath of the cold war in the early 1990s erupted as inept authoritar ian regimes decayed, state authority collapsed,- and a struggle for power ensued.2 To these were added conflicts that emerged in the aftermath of the disi. [...] The mayhem, ethnic and sectarian conflict, and civil war that have ravaged the world in the years since the end of the Cold War have occasioned numerous interna tional humanitarian interventions, some of them involving the armed might of the United States and other advanced industrial democracies, frequently operating under the ae gis of the UN. [...] and our democratic allies intervene in the affairs of other sovereign states in order to "stop the killing"? Prior to the recent rise of humanitarian intervention, state sovereignty was the or ganizing principle of world affairs—not the least in the United Nations, which is after all a collection of states and not of peoples.