World security : challenges for a new century : a project of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies

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World security : challenges for a new century : a project of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies

Michael T. Klare, Daniel C. Thomas

St. Martin's Press, c1994

2nd ed

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  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This is a collection of 20 essays on contemporary topics in world peace and security. The essays feature a globalist perspective on problems and issues in world politics - arguing that global problems can only be solved through international cooperation. The collection also encompasses non-military issues, such as the global environment, human rights and the international political economy. Other topics covered include global violence against women, the future of the former Soviet states and population growth.

Table of Contents

  • 1. A Globalist Approach to World Security - S. Brown
  • 2. Conflict Between the Advances Industrial Nations - F. Bergston
  • 3. Democratization: Risks and Opportunities - T. Kart & P. Schmitter
  • 4. Beyond the USSR - Democracy, Development and Disorder in the Commonwealth of Independent Nations - W. Clemens, Jr
  • 5. The Future of Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Arms Control - A. Krass
  • 6. Nuclear Proliferation - Z. Davis
  • 7. Regional Conflicts and Their Resolution - L. Kreisberg
  • 8. Ethnic and Nationalist Conflict - D. Horowitz
  • 9. Militarization and Development in the Third World - N. Ball
  • 10. Conventional Arms Transfers - M. Klare
  • 11. UN Peacemaking and Peacekeeping - M. Karns & K. Mingst
  • 12. Promoting Human Rights - S. Marks
  • 13. Global Violence Against Women - C. Bunch & R. Carrillo
  • 14. Population Growth and Demographic Stress - D. Pirages
  • 15. Migrations, Refugees and Anti-Immigrant Violence - A. Zolberg
  • 16. Global Debt and Third World Development - V. Ferraro
  • 17. The Environment & International Security - J. Tuchman Mathews
  • 18. Environmental Decline & Inter-Group Conflict - T. Homer-Dixon
  • 19. World Hunger - J. Collins
  • 20. International Institutions and World Security - R. Johansen.

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