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This extended and revised work introduces students to the most pressing themes and issues for world security in the 21st century. In the book, global interests are addressed by region and by topic, covering ethnic conflict, international human rights, environmental threats, world hunger, global violence against women, trade wars, and the prospects for building governmental and non-governmental collaboration capable of managing or overcoming global threats to security.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.
About the Contributors.
1. Seyom Brown, "World Interests and the Changing Dimensions of Security"
2. James N. Rosenau, "The Dynamism of a Turbulent World"
3. Daniel N. Nelson, "Threats and Capacities: Great Powers and Global Insecurity"
4. Michael T. Klare, "The Era of Multiplying Schisms: World Security in the Twenty-First Century"
5. Karen Dawisha, "The Imperial Impulse: Russia and the "Near Abroad"
6. Barry Buzan and Gerald Segal, "Rethinking East Asian Security"
7. Michael C. Hudson, "The United States and the Middle East"
8. Zachary S. Davis, "Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation Policy in the 1990s"
9. Michael T. Klare and Lora Lumpe, "Fanning the Flames of War: Conventional Arms Transfers in the 1990s"
10. Michael E. Brown, "The Causes of Internal Conflict"
11. Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst, "The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future"
12. Charlotte Bunch and Roxanna Carillo, "Global Violence against Women: The Challenge to Human Rights and Development"
13. Phil Williams, "Transnational Criminal Organizations and International Security"
14. Michael Renner, "The Global Divide: Socioeconomic Disparities and International Security"
15. Vincent Ferraro, Ana Cristina R. Santos, and Julie Ginocchio, "The Global Trading System and International Politics"
16. Janet Welsh Brown, "International Environmental Cooperation as a Contribution to World Security"
17. Thomas Homer-Dixon, "Environmental Scarcity and Intergroup Conflict"
18. Dennis Pirages, "Demographic Change to World Security"
19. Robert C. Johansen, "Building World Security: The Need for Strengthened International Institutions"
Index.
Zusammenfassung
This comprehensive collection of original and edited essays provides students with an introduction to contemporary global issues. Klares selections provide a consistent global perspective, covering topics such as violence against women and trans-sovereign issues.
