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scientists were military scientists. 23Channeling these great minds into a civilian sphere would benefit humanity intwo ways. On the one hand, this would contribute to world peace because under thepresent system any breakthrough in military technology on one side is likely to upsetthe delicate peace. This should be viewed also against the sorry fact that today morethan twenty four nations possess ballistic missile capabilities of varying range andthere is an unprecedented rapid proliferation of advanced conventional and nuclearweapons. On the other hand, shifting the focus of R&D from military to civilian spherewould enable humanity to meaningfully tackle such global vices as poverty which areoften the breeding grounds for political instability and turmoil.There are other reasons why a collective security regime is needed now morethan anytime before. They relate to the peculiar features of our time. Individualare undergoing‘skill revolution’as a result of which they are now more capable ofassessing competently where they fit in international affair and how their behaviorcan be aggregated into significant collective outcomes. It is no longer possible toregard individuals as a constant in international political equations. It should alsobe noted that although citizens now have greater awareness of their circumstancesand rights, there is nothing inherent in the skill revolution that leads people more indemocratic direction: the world’s people are not so much converging around the samevalues as they are sharing a greater ability to recognize and articulate their values. 24In spite of this fact, it has become common place to hear the talk about a‘globalvillage’. While pointing to the increasingly complex interdependence in the world, thelabel is somehow misleading. There are factors forcing the globe to fall apart at leastwith the same pace as it is coming together. In the words of one observer, insteadof one‘global village’there are villages around the globe more aware of each other. 2586223 F. Barnaby,“The Threat of Mass Destructive Warfare,”in F. Barnaby（Ed.）Proceedings of the First InternationalConference on a more Democratic UN（London: Frank, 1991）, p. 58.24 J N. Rosenau,“Security in a Turbulent World,”Current Affairs, May 1995, pp. 194-195.25 Cited in J. Nye, Jr.,“What New World Order?”Foreign Affairs, Spring 1992, Vol. 71（No. 2）, p. 85.