Globalization and Conflict: National Security in a 'New' Strategic Era / Edition 1

by Robert G. Patman

Overview

This volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in which defence and foreign policy interests essentially converge, remains largely intact.

The conventional wisdom since the suicide attacks of 9/11 is that the world has been transformed and, according to President Bush, "September 11 changed the strategic thinking" of the US. This book challenges these assumptions. Indeed, the Bush administration’s National Security strategy of 2002 has reinvigorated and even extended the idea of national security. Paradoxically, the renewed emphasis on a distinctly state-centred approach to security, including the War on Terror, has unfolded during an era of deepening globalization.

Drawing on the international expertise of fourteen specialists, the book examines four inter-related themes:

• the impact of globalization on the concept of security
• the strategic outlook of the world’s only superpower, the US
• the new conflicts that have come to characterize the post-Cold War era
• efforts to regulate the emerging patterns of conflict in the world.

Globalization and Conflict will be essential reading for students of strategic studies, security studies and international relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415359870
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/13/2006
Series:	Contemporary Security Studies
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction 1. Globalization, the End of the Cold War and the Doctrine of National Security Robert G. Patman Part II: Globalization and the New Security Environment 2. The Concept of Security in a Globalizing World Steve Smith 3. Globalization and Violent Political Dissent in Developing Countries Philip Nel Part III: Challenges of ‘The Unipolar Moment’ 4. Globalization, American Exceptionalism and Security James Gibney 5. The Impact of the 'Vietnam Syndrome' on US Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War World David A. Welch 6. Afghanistan, the ‘War on Terror’, and the Continuing Quest for Security Najibullah Lafraie Part IV: New Conflicts in the Post-Cold War Era 7. Russia, America and the New Conflicts in Central Asia Rouben Azizian 8. Globalization and the ‘New Wars’: The Case of Chechnya Jim Headley 9. Globalization, Power and Reform in the Middle East: Arab Responses to September 11 and its Aftermath Leanne Piggott 10. Humanitarian Intervention in East Timor: Some Ingredients for Building Sustainable Security? Anthony Hayward Part V: Managing the New Security Environment 11. Globalization, Peace Operations and the New Wars of the 1990s: Operational Challenges and Lessons Learned Peter Viggo Jakobsen 12.Requirements for Effective Military Intervention Rupert Smith 13. Managing Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa Gilbert Khadiagala Part VI: Conclusion 14. The Future of National Security Robert Ayson