Research Catalog

Title

Building a new global order : emerging trends in international security / edited by David Dewitt, David Haglund, John Kirton.

Publication

Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Dewitt, David B. (David Brian), 1948-
• Haglund, David G.
• Kirton, John J.

Description

x, 425 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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.--Publisher description.

Subject

• Security, International
• International cooperation
• International Cooperation
• International cooperation
• Security, International
• Internationale Kooperation
• Kollektive Sicherheit
• Sicherheitspolitik
• Internationale orde
• Internationale veiligheid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Quo Vadis? United States' cycle of power and its role in a transforming world / Charles F. Doran -- Collapse of the USSR and world security / S. Neil MacFarlane -- European security after the Cold War / C.C. Pentland -- Third World in the changing strategic context / Mohammed Ayoob -- Dynamics of military technology / Andrew L. Ross -- Production and security / Robert W. Cox -- Global communications, culture, and values / David V.J. Bell -- Global environmental change and international security / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon -- Population and (in)security : national perspectives and global imperatives / Nazli Choucri and Robert C. North -- Opportunities and obstacles for collective security after the Cold War / Thomas G. Weiss and Laura S. Hayes Holgate -- United Nations' contribution to international peace and security / W. Andy Knight and Mari Yamashita -- Bound to leave? Future of the NATO stationing regime in Germany / David G. Haglund and Olaf Mager -- Seven-Power Summit as a new security institution / John Kirton -- Missile technology control regime / Albert Legault -- New world order? Western public perceptions in the Post-Cold-public perceptions in the Post-Cold-War era / Don Munton.

ISBN

• 0195409647
• 9780195409642

LCCN

94219786

OCLC

• ocm32510713
• 32510713
• SCSB-2013819

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library