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Security in a Post-Cold War World

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor BYUNG-JOON AHN Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University, South KoreaMATS BERDAL Research Fellow and Research Co-ordinator at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University, UKBRYCE HARLAND Director of the New Zealand Institute of International AffairsRT. HON. DON MCKINNON Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of New ZealandWALTER RUSSELL MEAD political economist and a senior contributing editor at Worth magazineDIANNE OTTO Senior Lecture in Law at the University of Melbourne, AustraliaSIR MICHAEL QUINLAN Director of the Ditchley Foundation, Chipping Norton, UKTERENCE O'BRIEN Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) in Wellington, New ZealandMICHAEL RENNER Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, Washington D.C.PETER SHERMAN Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Melbourne University, AustraliaJOHN SIMPSON Professor of International Relations at the University of Southampton, UKRAMESH THAKUR Professor of International Relations and Vice Rector at the United Nations University in Tokyo, JapanMARTIN VAN CREVELD Professor of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IsraelJIEMIAN YANG Director and Senior Fellow of the Department of American Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations About the Contributors Introduction: Security in a Post-Cold War Context; R.G.Patman Security in the 1990s: New Zealand's Approach; D.McKinnon The Future of War; M.van Creveld The Role of Military Force in International Security; M.Quinlan UN Peacekeeping and the Use of Force: No Escape from Hard Decisions; M.Berdal Whose Security? Re-imagining Post-Cold War Peacekeeping from a Feminist Perspective; D.Otto Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity; M.Renner Geoeconomics in American Foreign Policy; W.R.Mead Achieving Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation and Non-Possession: Problems and Prospects; J.Simpson Nato Expansion and the Russian Question; P.Shearman Defence by Other Means: Australia's Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy; R.Thakur Korea and East Asian Security into the 21st Century; B. Ahn Moving Toward a More Secure Asia-Pacific: A Chinese View; J.Yang Asia-Pacific Security: A New Zealand Viewpoint; T.O'Brien Reflections on Security; B.Harland Index...

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations About the Contributors Introduction: Security in a Post-Cold War Context; R.G.Patman Security in the 1990s: New Zealand's Approach; D.McKinnon The Future of War; M.van Creveld The Role of Military Force in International Security; M.Quinlan UN Peacekeeping and the Use of Force: No Escape from Hard Decisions; M.Berdal Whose Security? Re-imagining Post-Cold War Peacekeeping from a Feminist Perspective; D.Otto Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity; M.Renner Geoeconomics in American Foreign Policy; W.R.Mead Achieving Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation and Non-Possession: Problems and Prospects; J.Simpson Nato Expansion and the Russian Question; P.Shearman Defence by Other Means: Australia's Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy; R.Thakur Korea and East Asian Security into the 21st Century; B. Ahn Moving Toward a More Secure Asia-Pacific: A Chinese View; J.Yang Asia-Pacific Security: A New Zealand Viewpoint; T.O'Brien Reflections on Security; B.Harland Index

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Authors Professor Robert G. Patman, Robert G. Patman
Assisted by Patman (Editor), R Patman (Editor), R. Patman (Editor), Robert G. Patman (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 23.06.1999
 
EAN 9780333732267
ISBN 978-0-333-73226-7
No. of pages 305
Subjects Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science

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