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National Security for a New Era : Globalization and Geopolitics

ISBN: 9780321383938 | 0321383931
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
"National Security for a New Era"is 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 f... MORE
Prefacexiii
Introduction: Framing the Problem of National Security1(14)
The Nature of Change
2(8)
How Much Has Changed?
... MORE		2(2)
New Dynamics in the Environment?
4(6)
Globalization and Geopolitics
10(1)
Conclusions: Quo Vadis?
11(1)
Selected Bibliography
12(3)
PART I THE CONTEXT15(142)
CHAPTER 1 Fault Lines: World Politics in a New Millennium
17(30)
The First Fault Line: The World a Decade After the Cold War
20(8)
Undeniable Benefits
22(2)
Debatable Changes
24(4)
The Second Fault Line: The World After September 11
28(5)
AMPLIFICATION 1.1: The Rules of War: Who is a POW?
31(2)
Dynamics of the New International System
33(11)
Globalization and/or Geopolitics
33(3)
AMPLIFICATION 1.2: System Changes and Continuity: 1900 and 2000
35(1)
The American Role in the New World System
36(2)
What Should the United States Do?
38(13)
CHALLENGE!: Your Own Personal Inventory
43(1)
Conclusion: The Continuing Role of Force
44(1)
Selected Bibliography
45(2)
CHAPTER 2 Geopolitics: America and the Realist Paradigm
47(26)
Realism and the Realist Paradigm
50(1)
Basic Concepts and Relationships
51(10)
Sovereignty
52(1)
Vital Interests
53(3)
AMPLIFICATION 2.1: Finding the Boundary Between Vital and Less-Than-Vital Interests
55(1)
Power Politics
56(6)
CHALLENGE!: Justifying the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
57(2)
AMPLIFICATION 2.2: Measuring Power
59(2)
Paradigm Summary
61(1)
Critiques and Anomalies of the Realist Paradigm
62(8)
Critiques
63(5)
AMPLIFICATION 2.3: The Limits of Power: Dealing with Saddam
64(4)
Anomalies
68(2)
Conclusion: The Realist Paradigm Today
70(2)
Selected Bibliography
72(1)
CHAPTER 3 The American Experience
73(23)
Conditioning Factors in the American Tradition
74(5)
American Ahistoricism
74(2)
Accident of Geography
76(1)
The Anglo-Saxon Heritage
77(2)
AMPLIFICATION 3.1: Dealing with Dependence on Persian Gulf Oil
78(1)
Evolution of the American Experience
79(1)
The Formative Period, 1789-1945
79(6)
Antimilitary Bias
80(1)
The Citizen-Soldier
81(1)
The Myth of Invincibility
82(1)
Mobilization and Demobilization
83(1)
AMPLIFICATION 3.2: Readiness and Pearl Harbor
83(1)
Total War Preference
84(1)
The Cold War: 1945-1989
85(6)
The Role of the Media
87(11)
AMPLIFICATION 3.3: The Media and the Iraq War
90(1)
The Impact of Democratic Institutions
91(1)
Conclusion: The Contemporary Period, 1989 to Present
92(2)
CHALLENGE!: How Much Has Changed?
94(1)
Selected Bibliography
94(2)
CHAPTER 4 The Nature and End of the Cold War
96(29)
The Cold War System
98(7)
Characteristics
100(3)
AMPLIFICATION 4.1: Better Dead than Red? Better Red than Dead?
102(1)
Sources of Change
103(2)
Forms of Military Competition
105(7)
Conventional Forces
106(3)
Nuclear Forces
109(3)
AMPLIFICATION 4.2: The Capitalist Bomb
111(1)
Deadlock of the Competition
112(5)
The Economic Dimension
112(2)
The Military Dimension
114(1)
Convergence
115(2)
Cold War Residues
117(6)
Russia and the Successor States
117(2)
The European Security Problem
119(8)
AMPLIFICATION 4.3: Chechnya and the Pipeline
120(1)
CHALLENGE!: The Former Soviet Union and the War on Terrorism
121(2)
Conclusion: The End of the Cold War in Perspective
123(1)
Selected Bibliography
124(1)
CHAPTER 5 The Rise of Globalization
125(32)
The Bretton Woods System, 1945-1971
127(7)
The Setting
127(2)
The Bretton Woods Institutions
129(4)
AMPLIFICATION 5.1: The ITO and the Anti—Free Traders
131(2)
The Breakdown of Bretton Woods
133(1)
The Transitional Period, 1971-1990
134(5)
American Decline
135(2)
AMPLIFICATION 5.2: The Declinist Thesis
136(1)
American Revival
137(2)
The Globalizing Economy, 1990—Present
139(13)
Characteristics and Values
140(4)
CHALLENGE!: How Important Are a Balanced Budget and Free Trade?
143(1)
The Mechanisms of Globalization
144(3)
New Additions in the National Security Agenda
147(3)
Barriers and Objections to Globalization
150(10)
AMPLIFICATION 5.3: The Rejectionists
151(1)
Conclusion: Globalization and American Security
152(2)
Selected Bibliography
154(3)
PART II THE CHANGING WORLD157(88)
CHAPTER 6 Security, Interests, and Power
159(25)
Thinking about Security
160(8)
Military and Nonmilitary Elements of Security
161(5)
CHALLENGE!: Defining Terrorism as a Security Threat
163(1)
AMPLIFICATION 6.1: Israel, Syria, the Golan Heights, and Water
164(2)
Levels of Security
166(2)
Risk and Risk Management
168(3)
AMPLIFICATION 6.2: What Should the United States Do about North Korea?
169(2)
Thinking about Interests
171(6)
Levels of Interests
171(4)
Security and Interests in the Contemporary Environment
175(2)
Applying Instruments of Power
177(4)
Using the Instruments
178(1)
The Contemporary Balance of Instruments of Power
179(2)
Conclusion: The Changing Nature of Influence
181(2)
Selected Bibliography
183(1)
CHAPTER 7 The Foreign and Domestic Environments
184(32)
Competing Images of the International Environment
185(5)
Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy
186(2)
Friedman: Globalization
188(2)
The Impact of Domestic Politics
190(14)
The Executive Branch
192(7)
AMPLIFICATION 7.1: The President, the Constitution, and National Security
193(6)
The Congress
199(5)
AMPLIFICATION 7.2: The Congress, the Constitution, and National Security
200(4)
Applications: The Homeland Security Response to the Environment
204(10)
The Department of Homeland Security
205(1)
Background and Evolution
205(2)
The Homeland Security Response to September 11
207(3)
Ongoing Problems and Controversies
210(8)
AMPLIFICATION 7.3: Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
212(1)
CHALLENGE!: The 'Angry Librarians" and Civil Liberties
213(1)
Conclusion: The Environment Since September 11, 2001
214(1)
Selected Bibliography
214(2)
CHAPTER 8 Traditional Military Problems
216(29)
Nuclear Forces and Deterrence
218(11)
Seminal Events of the Nuclear Age
218(3)
Theories of Deterrence
221(2)
Nuclear Residues
223(6)
AMPLIFICATION 8.1: The China Threat
226(3)
Conventional Forces and the Future
229(4)
Traditional Roles
229(4)
AMPLIFICATION 8.2: Light and Heavy Forces?
232(1)
Traditional Residues
233(8)
Military Manpower
233(3)
CHALLENGE!: Military Service after Iraq
235(1)
Military Reform
236(14)
AMPLIFICATION 8.3: Creighton Abrams and the Role of the Reserves
239(2)
Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Traditional Forces
241(2)
Selected Bibliography
243(2)
PART III NEW CHALLENGES245(116)
CHAPTER 9 Asymmetrical Warfare: The "New Kind of War"
247(26)
Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Warfare
250(11)
Evolution of Asymmetrical Warfare
251(3)
AMPLIFICATION 9.1: Sun Tzu on Asymmetrical Warfare
252(2)
The Contemporary Setting
254(7)
Asymmetrical Futures?
261(8)
Fourth-Generation Warfare
261(4)
New Internal Wars
265(10)
AMPLIFICATION 9.2: The "Battle" for Sierra Leone
266(3)
Conclusion: New Form or New Face of War?
269(3)
CHALLENGE: Is There a New Kind of War?
271(1)
Selected Bibliography
272(1)
CHAPTER 10 Terrorism
273(31)
Defining Terrorism
275(9)
Terrorist Acts
276(3)
Terrorist Targets
279(3)
AMPLIFICATION 10.1: The Morality of Saving Targets
281(1)
Terrorist Objectives
282(2)
Perspectives on and Causes of Terrorism
284(8)
Three Perspectives
284(2)
Three Causes
286(6)
AMPLIFICATION 10.2: Profiling Suicide Terrorists
288(4)
Terrorism Since September 11
292(1)
The GWOT: Dealing with Terrorism
292(7)
Terrorism Suppression: Antiterrorism and Counterterrorism
290(7)
International versus National Efforts
297(1)
Other Aspects of the Problem
298(1)
Conclusion: A Terrorism Strategy?
299(3)
CHALLENGE!: Terrorism and You
302(1)
Selected Bibliography
302(2)
CHAPTER 11 Peacekeeping and State-Building: The New Dilemma
304(30)
Failed and Failing States: The Context
308(23)
What Is a Failed State?
308(6)
AMPLIFICATION 11.1: Indonesia as a Potentially Failing State
310(4)
Concepts and Forms of Intervention
314(2)
Basic Distinctions
316(2)
Peacekeeping
318(4)
AMPLIFICATION 11.2: The Talk-Shoot Relationship in Peacekeeping
321(1)
State-Building
322(13)
AMPLIFICATION 11.3: KFOR and UNMIK
328(2)
CHALLENGE!: What Should We Do in Afghanistan?
330(1)
Conclusion: The New World Order?
331(2)
Selected Bibliography
333(1)
CHAPTER 12 The Geopolitics of Globalization
334(27)
Globalization as a Geopolitical Phenomenon
335(8)
AMPLIFICATION 12.1: China, Taiwan, Guns, and Butter
337(1)
Globalization and the American Decade of the 1990's
338(2)
Challenges to American Leadership from the 1990's
340(3)
AMPLIFICATION 12.2: Globalized Geopolitics in a Flattened World
342(1)
The Impact of September 11, 2001
343(14)
Globalization and Terrorism
344(2)
Short-Term Incompatibilities
346(4)
Long-Term Compatibilities
350(4)
AMPLIFICATION 12.3: The Israeli Campaign against Palestinian Terrorism
353(1)
The Case of Afghanistan
354(3)
Conclusion: Reconciling Globalization and Terrorism
357(2)
CHALLENGE!: Will Globalization Really Work?
359(1)
Selected Bibliography
359(2)
PART IV THE FUTURE361(24)
CHAPTER 13 Globalization and Geopolitics
363(22)
The Future of Geopolitics and Traditional National Security
365(6)
AMPLIFICATION 13.1: The SECDEF on Future Force
366(5)
The Future of Globalization
371(4)
Where Globalization and Geopolitics Meet
375(5)
AMPLIFICATION 13.2: Terrorism and Globalization
377(3)
Conclusion: What Makes Us Secure? What Makes Us Prosperous?
380(3)
CHALLENGE!: Visions of the Violent Future
382(1)
Selected Bibliography
383(2)
Index385

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