Challenges to global security : geopolitics and power in an age of transition / edited by Hussein Solomon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solomon, Hussein.

Series:

Global peace and policy ; 2.

Global peace and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

Geopolitics.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.

Summary:

Ours is an age of great upheaval where change sometimes appears to be the only constant. Three of the most important forces driving such change are globalization, regionalization and democratization. This substantial work makes a concerted attempt to understand these forces, and to show how they impact on the vitally important question of global security in the USA, Latin America, South Asia, South East Asia, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa. Each discourse receives substantial coverage: from economics and politics to religion, religious fundamentalism and human rights.

Contents:

Part I From National to Regional and Global Security

2 The Competition for Power and Legitimacy in an Age of Transition / Joseph A. Camilleri 27

Part II Regional Security Problems

3 US Nuclear Policies / Michael D. Intriligator 55

4 Regional Security in Latin America / Benedicte Bull 66

5 Regional Security in South Asia / B.M. Jain 90

6 Regional Security in Southeast Asia / Joseph Y.S. Cheng 112

7 Regional Security in the European Union / Hripsime Nalbandyan 147

8 Regional Security in Russia and the Near Abroad / Olga A. Vorkunova 166

9 Regional Security in the Middle East / Mohammad El-Sayed Selim 188

10 Africa's Shaky Security Architecture: Perspectives from SADC and the AU / Hussein Solomon 222

11 Prospects for an Asian Union / Beni Prasad Agarwal 246

12 On the Road to Global Security? / Hussein Solomon 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845115272

1845115279

OCLC:

148906271