World Security Challenges for a New Century

This comprehensive collection of original and edited essays provides students with an introduction to contemporary global issues. Klare's selections provide a consistent global perspective, covering topics such as violence against women and trans-sovereign issues.

Preface

vii

About the Contributors

xi

World Interests and the Changing Dimensions of Security

1

(17)

Seyom Brown

The Dynamism of a Turbulent World

18

(18)

James N. Rosenau

Threats and Capacities: Great Powers and Global Insecurity

36

(23)

Daniel N. Nelson

The Era of Multiplying Schisms: World Security in the Twenty-First Century

59

(19)

Michael T. Klare

The Imperial Impulse: Russia and the ``Near Abroad''

78

(18)

Karen Dawisha

Rethinking East Asian Security

96

(17)

Barry Buzan

Gerald Segal

The United States and the Middle East

113

(22)

Michael C. Hudson

Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation Policy in the 1990s

135

(25)

Zachary S. Davis

Fanning the Flames of War: Conventional Arms Transfers in the 1990s

160

(20)

Michael T. Klare

Lora Lumpe

The Causes of Internal Conflict

180

(20)

Michael E. Brown

The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future

200

(29)

Margaret P. Karns

Karen A. Mingst

Global Violence against Women: The Challenge to Human Rights and Development

229

(20)

Charlotte Bunch

Roxanna Carillo

Transnational Criminal Organizations and International Security

249

(24)

Phil Williams

The Global Divide: Socioeconomic Disparities and International Security

273

(21)

Michael Renner

The Global Trading System and International Politics

294

(23)

Vincent Ferraro

Ana Cristina R. Santos

Julie Ginocchio

International Environmental Cooperation as a Contribution to World Security

317

(25)

Janet Welsh Brown

Environmental Scarcity and Intergroup Conflict

342

(24)

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Demographic Challenges to World Security

366

(20)

Dennis Pirages

Building World Security: The Need for Strengthened International Institutions

386

(25)

Robert C. Johansen

Index

411

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