Security in a Post-Cold War World

by R. Patman (Editor)

Overview

For much of the post-war era, the substance and scope of international security was defined by the parameters of the Cold War. But the end of the Cold War has created a new global context. This book seeks to map out the nature of post-Cold War security by exploring the patterns of international conflict, weighing non-state challenges to security, examining inter-state cooperation in the security field and evaluating the security dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333732267
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/23/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

BYUNG-JOON AHN Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University, South Korea MATS BERDAL Research Fellow and Research Co-ordinator at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University, UK BRYCE HARLAND Director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs RT. HON. DON MCKINNON Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand WALTER RUSSELL MEAD political economist and a senior contributing editor at Worth magazine DIANNE OTTO Senior Lecture in Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia SIR MICHAEL QUINLAN Director of the Ditchley Foundation, Chipping Norton, UK TERENCE O'BRIEN Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) in Wellington, New Zealand MICHAEL RENNER Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, Washington D.C. PETER SHERMAN Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Melbourne University, Australia JOHN SIMPSON Professor of International Relations at the University of Southampton, UK RAMESH THAKUR Professor of International Relations and Vice Rector at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan MARTIN VAN CREVELD Professor of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel JIEMIAN YANG Director and Senior Fellow of the Department of American Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations About the Contributors Introduction: Security in a Post-Cold War Context; R.G.Patman Security in the 1990s: New Zealand's Approach; D.McKinnon The Future of War; M.van Creveld The Role of Military Force in International Security; M.Quinlan UN Peacekeeping and the Use of Force: No Escape from Hard Decisions; M.Berdal Whose Security? Re-imagining Post-Cold War Peacekeeping from a Feminist Perspective; D.Otto Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity; M.Renner Geoeconomics in American Foreign Policy; W.R.Mead Achieving Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation and Non-Possession: Problems and Prospects; J.Simpson Nato Expansion and the Russian Question; P.Shearman Defence by Other Means: Australia's Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy; R.Thakur Korea and East Asian Security into the 21st Century; B. Ahn Moving Toward a More Secure Asia-Pacific: A Chinese View; J.Yang Asia-Pacific Security: A New Zealand Viewpoint; T.O'Brien Reflections on Security; B.Harland Index