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The Insecurity Dilemma : National Security of Third World States / ed. by Brian L. Job.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Positing an "insecurity dilemma," in which national security, defined as regime security by state authorities, becomes pitted against the incompatible demands of ethnic, social, and religious forces, this book addresses the problems and prospects for security in the Third World in the 1990s.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Insecurity Dilemma: Theory and Practice
- 1 The Insecurity Dilemma: National, Regime, and State Securities in the Third World
- 2 International Theory and War in the Third World
- Part 2 The State, State Building, and Security
- 3 The Security Predicament of the Third World State: Reflections on State Making in a Comparative Perspective
- 4 The Security Dilemma in Africa
- Part 3 Domestic and External Strategies to Attain Security
- 5 Systemic Sources of Dependent Militarization
- 6 Arms Imports, Arms Production, and the Quest for Security in the Third World
- 7 Regionalism and Regime Security in the Third World: Comparing the Origins of the ASEAN and the GCC
- Part 4 Third World Security in a Restructured International System
- 8 Third World Regional Security in Structural and Historical Perspective
- 9 A New Role for Middle Powers in Regional Conflict Resolution?
- 10 The Superpowers and Third World Security
- References
- About the Contributors
- Index
- About the Book
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-68585-834-1
- OCLC:
- 1378176185
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