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This book contains a probing and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the emerging notion of national security in light of the dramatic post-Cold War transformation of the international system. It begins with a discussion of the nature of this change, emphasizing declining national sovereignty, escalating international interdependence, and proliferating anarchic conflict. After developing a framework of the conceptual components of national security, this study focuses on analyzing change--both in priorities and tradeoffs--in military security, economic security, resource/environmental security, and political/cultural security. Brief case studies of the 1991 Gulf War, the 1991 Maastricht Treaty, the 1992 Earth Summit, and the ongoing Yugoslavia conflict illustrate the theoretical contentions. Finally, a set of crucial, fundamental security policy challenges and responses conclude the book.
List of contents
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Preface
Introduction
The Transformation of the National Security Context
The Emerging Notion of National Security
Military Security
Economic Security
Resource/Environmental Security
Political/Cultural Security
Security Case Studies
Security Challenges and Responses
Selected Bibliography
Notes
About the author
ROBERT MANDEL is Chair and Professor of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon./e He has written five books and numerous articles and chapters dealing primarily with security and conflict issues. He has testified before the United States Congress and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Department, and the United States Institute of Peace.
