ration and conflict that may be anticipated between countries, for the higher the level of collaboration, the lower the level of conflict, and the greater the probability of international political stability. The greater the probability, the likelihood that NATO will survive is lowered (Clarke, 1993, pp. 22-40).
International relations most often is thought of in terms of relations among nations, which largely are associated with conflict resolution, as conflict and disagreement "are endemic" in the contemporary international environment (Dale, 1993, pp. 28-29). Cooperation may be considered as a foundation of human civilization; however, cooperation in transnational conflict resolution has traditionally been noticeably absent in the conduct of international relations (Karatnycky, 1994, pp. 57-59). One need go no further back than the Gulf War in the late winter of 1991 or the current conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel for examples of conflicts resolved or in the process of being resolved by other than peaceful me
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