"A project of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
World interests and the changing dimensions of security / Seyom Brown -- The dynamism of a turbulent world / James N. Rosenau -- Threats and capacities: great powers and global insecurity / Daniel N. Nelson -- The era of multiplying schisms: world security in the twenty-first century / Michael T. Klare -- The imperial impulse: Russia and the "near abroad" / Karen Dawisha -- Rethinking East Asian security / Barry Buzan and Gerald Segal -- The United States and the Middle East / Michael C. Hudson -- Nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation policy in the 1990s / Zachary S. Davis. Fanning the flames of war: conventional arms transfers in the 1990s / Michael T. Klare and Lora Lumpe -- The causes of internal conflict / Michael E. Brown -- The evolution of United Nations peacekeeping and peacemaking: lessons from the past and challenges for the future / Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst -- Global violence against women: the challenge to human rights and development / Charlotte Bunch and Roxanna Carillo -- Transnational criminal organizations and international security / Phil Williams. The global divide: socioeconomic disparities and international security / Michael Renner -- The global trading system and international politics / Vincent Ferraro, Ana Cristina R. Santos, and Julio Ginocchio -- International environmental cooperation as a contribution to world security / Janet Welsh Brown -- Environmental scarcity and intergroup conflict / Thomas Homer-Dixon -- Demographic challenges to world security / Dennis Pirages -- Building world security: the need for strengthened international institutions / Robert C. Johansen.
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