A Dangerous World?: Threat Perception and U.S. National Security

by Christopher A. Preble (Editor), John Mueller Ohio State University (Editor)

Overview

In 2012, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey contended that “we are living in the most dangerous time in my lifetime, right now.” In 2013, he was more assertive, stating that the world is “more dangerous than it has ever been.” Is this accurate? In this book, an edited volume of papers presented at the Cato Institute's Dangerous World Conference, experts on international security assess, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security. The authors examine the most frequently referenced threats, including wars between nations and civil wars within nations, and discuss the impact of rising nations, weapons proliferation, general unrest, transnational crime, and state failures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939709400
Publisher:	Cato Institute
Publication date:	10/07/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christopher A. Preble is the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and the author of three books, most recently The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes us Less Safe, Less Prosperous and Less Free (Cornell University Press, 2009).
John Mueller is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. Mueller is the author of many books including Terror, Security and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits and Costs of Homeland Security (Oxford University Press, 2011), Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (Oxford, 2010), and Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Free Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

800x600 1. How Dangerous? Understanding ThermonuclearWar and the History That Never Happened
by Francis J. Gavin
2. China's Putative Threat to U.S. NationalSecurity by Lyle J. Goldstein
3. Security Threats in Contemporary WorldPolitics: Potential Hegemons, Partnerships, and
Primacy by Brendan Rittenhouse Green
4. How to Deter Terrorism: A New Strategy byMax Abrahms
5. America and Illicit Globalization as aSecurity Threat: Myths, Misconceptions, and
Historical Lessons by Peter Andreas
6. The Management of Savagery: Policy Optionsfor Confronting Sub-State Threats
by Austin Long
7. The American Perception of Sub-StateThreats by Paul Pillar
8. It's Coming from Inside the House by MichaelCohen
9. Delusions of Danger: The Persistence ofGeopolitical Fear in U.S. Foreign Policy
by Christopher Fettweis
10. Dealing with Cyberattacks by MartinLibicki
11. Climate Change and National Security:Balancing the Costs and Benefits by Mark Stewart
12. Bucks for the Bang? Assessing theEconomic Returns to Military Primacy
by Daniel W. Drezner
13. Commerce at War: Assessing the Value ofMilitary Protection for Trade by Eugene Gholz
14. Commanding the Commons: Prospects andOptions for the United States
byJoshua R. Shifrinson and Sameer Lalwani
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