Synopses & Reviews
National Security for a New Erais the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of American national security policy since the events of 9/11 galvanized change. It starts from the premise that there have been two fundamental “fault lines” in national security policy during the last two decades: the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Each transformed security policy: the end of the Cold War ushered in the era of globalization for the 1990s, and 9/11 initiated a shift to a more traditional geopolitical view of the world for the first decade of the new century. The text attempts to place these traumatic events into the context of the prior American experience of the Cold War, traditional concerns over American interests, politics, and military problems, and to extend that experience into the future. Asymmetrical warfare, the Iraq war precedent, the neo-conservative challenge, state building, and the future reconciliation of globalization and geopolitics are all examined.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Framing the Problem of National Security
Part I: The Context
Chapter 1: Fault Lines: World Politics in a New Millenium
Chapter 2: Geopolitics: America and the Realist Paradigm
Chapter 3: The American Experience
Chapter 4: The Nature and End of the Cold War
Chapter 5: The Rise of Globalization
Part II: The Changing World
Chapter 6: Security, Interests, and Power
Chapter 7: The Foreign and Domestic Environments
Chapter 8: Traditional Military Problems
Part III: New Challenges
Chapter 9: Asymmetrical Warfare: The “New Kind of War”
Chapter 10: Terrorism
Chapter 11: Peacekeeping and State-Building: The New Dilemma
Chapter 12: The Geopolitics of Globalization
Part IV: The Future
Chapter 13: Globalization and Geopolitics