The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. As the Gulf War of 1991 demonstrated, regional conflicts can expand, adopting the methods and means of the earlier superpower confrontation. Recent events in the Horn of Africa, the Balkans, and Southeast Asia have revealed the continuing power of historic ethnic, religious, and national rivalries and the seeming inability of the international community to find effective solutions. At the same time, modern weapons and communications technologies, demographic changes and environmental degradation, vast disparities in wealth, and the globalization of both economic activity and Western culture pose enormous challenges. Are the international institutions with which we have lived since the end of the Second World War equipped to handle these problems? Written by international authorities in a wide range of disciplines, the essays in this text examine what is known, what must be determined, and what might be done with respect to these profound and urgent issues.
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"...this edited volume provides a rich, informative and useful contribution to the study of international security after the Cold War." Canadian Journal of Political Science
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David Dewitt, Professor of Politics, York University. David Haglund, Professor of Politics, Queen's University. John Kirton, Professor of Politics, University of Toronto.
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Since the mid-1980s, scholars and commentators on issues of peace and war have noted the scope of political change, the rapidity with which events are known the world over, and the complexities involved in trying to understand the new security challenges. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stationing regime, stationing countries, stationing pattern, stationing states, systemic share, defensive military technology, military technological change, defensive military technologies, authoritative reach, summit system, policy breadth, changing relative power, conventional military technologies, international security agenda, institutional depth, defensive dominance, challenger groups, technological continuity, stationed forces, horizontal proliferation, missile proliferation, security governance, ideational factors, conventional arms transfers, master variables Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, New York, United Nations, Security Council, Eastern Europe, Secretary General, Middle East, Gulf War, Western Europe, General Assembly, European Community, Oxford Univ, East West, Princeton Univ, Cambridge Univ, European Union, League of Nations, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Warsaw Pact, Persian Gulf, San Francisco, South Africa, World Resources, Central America New!
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stationing regime, stationing countries, stationing pattern, stationing states, systemic share, defensive military technology, military technological change, defensive military technologies, authoritative reach, summit system, policy breadth, changing relative power, conventional military technologies, international security agenda, institutional depth, defensive dominance, challenger groups, technological continuity, stationed forces, horizontal proliferation, missile proliferation, security governance, ideational factors, conventional arms transfers, master variables Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, New York, United Nations, Security Council, Eastern Europe, Secretary General, Middle East, Gulf War, Western Europe, General Assembly, European Community, Oxford Univ, East West, Princeton Univ, Cambridge Univ, European Union, League of Nations, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Warsaw Pact, Persian Gulf, San Francisco, South Africa, World Resources, Central America New!
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