January 11, 2002

Setting Right a Dangerous World

By JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

We've never had a good name for it, and now it's over. The post-cold-war era -- let us call it that for want of any better term -- began with the collapse of one structure, the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and ended with the collapse of another, the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11, 2001. No one, apart from the few people who plotted and carried out those events, could have anticipated that they were going to happen. But from the moment they did, everyone acknowledged that

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