For much of the post-war era, the substance and scope of international security was defined by the parameters of the Cold War. But the end of the Cold War has created a new global context. This book seeks to map out the nature of post-Cold War security by exploring the patterns of international conflict, weighing non-state challenges to security, examining inter-state cooperation in the security field and evaluating the security dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region.
Though it might be impossible to conceive that the Cold War represented a lesser of two evils, the 12 British and Canadian scholars contributing to this volume suggest that international security today looks a little like high noon at the OK Corral. They consider the serious political instabilities, dangerous nationalisms, and border disputes which has been erupting like boils since the end of the Cold War, and track these regional studies through the security problems facing collective global security in a still proliferating nuclear age. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Cold War may be over, but the United States is still practicing Cold War foreign policies. From the Persian Gulf to El Salvador, from Bosnia to Somalia, U.S. policymakers continue to rely on force, threats, arms, and military aid. A fundamental redefinition of national security–beyond war and militarization, beyond bilateralism, beyond sovereign states–is long overdue. In Security Without War, a dynamic author team lays out new principles and policies for the United States to adopt in a post-Cold War world. Shuman and Harvey encourage Americans to take account of all threats (not just military ones), to emphasize preventing conflicts over winning wars, to enhance every nation's security (including that of its enemies), to favour multilateral approaches over bilateral ones, and to promote greater citizen participation in foreign policy. Throughout, they show how military, political, economic, and environmental security interests are all linked–and how emphasizing one over the others can undermine the nation's safety. Security Without War brings together for the first time the major elements of post-Cold War security thought. The authors show how a new framework for U.S. international relations can enhance U.S.–and indeed, global–security at a substantially lower cost.
Concentrates on the economic and political aspects of China's security agenda, which have, to a certain extent, been given less prominence in most security studies on China.
Theories of New Regionalism represents the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories of new regionalism. Major theorists from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives, spanning new regionalism & world order approaches along with regional governance, liberal institutionalism & neoclassical development regionalism, to regional security complex theory (RSCT) and the region-building approach.
NATO's decision to open itself to new members and new missions is one of the most contentious and least understood issues of the post-Cold War world. This book, an unusual and intriguing blend of memoirs and scholarship, takes us back to the decade when those momentous decisions were made. Former senior officials from the United States, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe who were directly involved in the decisions of that time describe their considerations, concerns, and pressures. They are joined by scholars who have been able to draw on newly declassified archival sources to revisit NATO's evolving role in the 1990s.
In this book a group of influential and distinguished scholars analyse some of the key questions in contemporary international relations. The book is in three parts. In the first, the lessons and legacies of Cold War are examined, including debates about its rise and fall, and the implications of the superpower nuclear confrontation. Part II asks questions about powers and politics in the post-Cold War world: the USA's potential as a world leader, Russia's troubled future, Japan's potential power, the China syndrome, and Africa's problems. The final part looks further into the future, discussing international organisation, life politics, and the potentialities for human society under the conditions of globalisation. The book shows how different countries and different groups of countries are confronting urgent issues of statecraft in a period of radical global transformation.
Excerpt from Collective Security in the Post-Cold War World The cold war is over, and the confrontation between the West and the Soviet Union has come to an end. This was not something that I expected to see in my lifetime, but it happened - and it happened much faster than anyone could have predicted. In December 1989, I was in Berlin with Congressman Richard A. Gephardt, the House Majority Leader. As we met with a wide range of East German and West German political leaders, all of us expected to see the eventual reunification of Germany, but all of us talked in terms of decades. As we all know, it was only a matter of months before Germany was united, and it was only a few months more until the Soviet Union ceased to exist. With this international transformation, we are seeing truly historic changes. We are witnessing the difficult struggle to establish democratic governments, pluralistic societies, and market-oriented economic systems in the republics that were formerly constituent parts of the Soviet Union. The former Soviet satellites in Central and Eastern Europe are eagerly pressing for membership in the European Community and asking to participate in NATO. While the conclusion of the cold war has brought an end to the great-power confrontation, it has not brought stability or tranquility. Rather it has brought unprecedented challenges to international peace and stability, and the principles which guided U.S. foreign policy for nearly half a century since the end of World War II are no longer valid in this new international order. We in the United States now confront serious - but very different - threats to our security and our national interests. Terrorism continues, but with new and more frightening manifestations, and without some of the restraints that the cold war confrontation imposed. We face terrorist regimes, like the Iraq of Saddam Hussein, which brutally conquered a smaller neighboring state and which nearly succeeded in developing weapons of mass destruction that threatened all of its neighbors. Unfortunately, Iraq is not unique. There are a number of other states - Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Syria to name only the most obvious ones - which are taking similar disturbing paths. In addition, we are facing increased violence of sub-state terrorism such as the Sendero Luminoso (the "Shining Path") in Peru and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Britain. The World Trade Center bombing in New York City raises troubling questions about the spread of the terrorist threat to our own nation. The United States and the international community face increased levels of inter-ethnic strife, like the tragic and bloody violence that has gripped the former Yugoslavia for nearly 2 years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
