posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00authored byCraig Snyder
Brings together a range of specially-commissioned chapters to provide an accessible introduction to security studies in the 21st century. The second edition has been expanded to cover developments in global and regional security; nuclear proliferation; terrorism; intervention and peacekeeping. C. Snyder, Deaking Uni.
History
Pagination
1 - 285
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Basingstoke, England
ISBN-13
9780230520950
ISBN-10
0230520952
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
eng
Notes
Contemporary security and strategy -- Realism and security studies -- Beyond strategy: critical thinking on the new security studies -- Non-military security challenges -- Thinking and rethinking the causes of war -- The evolution of strategy and the new woeld order -- The transformation of war -- Nuclear strategy -- US nuclear strategy -- The other nuclear powers -- Emerging nuclear states and the challenge of non-proliferation -- The challlenge to the nuclear non-proliferation regime -- Terrorism and insurgency -- Intervention -- Types of intervention -- Great powers and the international system: between unilatetralism and multilateralism -- Regional security and regional conflict.