World Security Challenges for a New Century

by Michael Klare; Yogesh Chandrani

• ISBN13: 9780312149901
• ISBN10: 0312149905
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This comprehensive collection of original and edited essays provides students with an introduction to contemporary global issues. Klare's selections provide a consistent global perspective, covering topics such as violence against women and trans-sovereign issues.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
About the Contributors	xi
World Interests and the Changing Dimensions of Security	1	(17)
Seyom Brown
The Dynamism of a Turbulent World	18	(18)
James N. Rosenau
Threats and Capacities: Great Powers and Global Insecurity	36	(23)
Daniel N. Nelson
The Era of Multiplying Schisms: World Security in the Twenty-First Century	59	(19)
Michael T. Klare
The Imperial Impulse: Russia and the ``Near Abroad''	78	(18)
Karen Dawisha
Rethinking East Asian Security	96	(17)
Barry Buzan
Gerald Segal
The United States and the Middle East	113	(22)
Michael C. Hudson
Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation Policy in the 1990s	135	(25)
Zachary S. Davis
Fanning the Flames of War: Conventional Arms Transfers in the 1990s	160	(20)
Michael T. Klare
Lora Lumpe
The Causes of Internal Conflict	180	(20)
Michael E. Brown
The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future	200	(29)
Margaret P. Karns
Karen A. Mingst
Global Violence against Women: The Challenge to Human Rights and Development	229	(20)
Charlotte Bunch
Roxanna Carillo
Transnational Criminal Organizations and International Security	249	(24)
Phil Williams
The Global Divide: Socioeconomic Disparities and International Security	273	(21)
Michael Renner
The Global Trading System and International Politics	294	(23)
Vincent Ferraro
Ana Cristina R. Santos
Julie Ginocchio
International Environmental Cooperation as a Contribution to World Security	317	(25)
Janet Welsh Brown
Environmental Scarcity and Intergroup Conflict	342	(24)
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Demographic Challenges to World Security	366	(20)
Dennis Pirages
Building World Security: The Need for Strengthened International Institutions	386	(25)
Robert C. Johansen
Index	411