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In this new edition of National Security in a New Era, renowned security scholar Donald M. Snow continues to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the United States national security situation and the security policies the U.S. adopts. This text examines national security from two fundamental fault lines the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 terrorist attacks and considers how the resulting era of globalization and geopolitics guides policy. Placing this trend in conceptual and historical context and following it through mili... MORE

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Preface	p. x
The Changing Problem of National Security	p. 1
Preview	p. 1
The Nature of Change	p. 3
How Much Has Changed?	p. 4
New Dynamics in the Environment?	p. 5
Globalization and Geopolitics	p. 11
Conclusion: Where From Here?	p. 13
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 13
Selected Bibliography	p. 14
The Context	p. 17
Fault Lines: World Politics in a New Millennium	p. 19
Preview	p. 19
The First Fault Line: The World After the Cold War	p. 22
Russian Resurgence?	p. 23
Undeniable Benefits	p. 24
Debatable Changes	p. 26
The Second Fault Line: The World After September 11	p. 30
The Rules of War: Who Is a POW?	p. 33
Dynamics of the New International System	p. 35
Globalization and/or Geopolitics	p. 36
The American Role in the New World System	p. 37
What Should the United States Do?	p. 40
Challenge!: Your Own Personal Inventory	p. 45
Conclusion: The Continuing Role of Force	p. 46
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 47
Selected Bibliography	p. 47
Geopolitics: America and the Realist Paradigm	p. 49
Preview	p. 49
Realism and the Realist Paradigm	p. 52
Basic Concepts and Relationships	p. 53
Sovereignty	p. 54
Vital Interests	p. 55
Finding the Boundary Between Vital and Less-Than-Vital Interests	p. 57
Power Politics	p. 58
Measuring Power	p. 60
Paradigm Summary	p. 62
Critiques and Anomalies of the Realist Paradigm	p. 64
Critiques	p. 64
The Limits of Power: Dealing with Saddam	p. 65
Anomalies	p. 69
Conclusion: The Realist Paradigm Today	p. 71
Challenge!: Justifying the U.S. Invasion of Iraq	p. 72
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 74
Selected Bibliography	p. 74
The American Experience	p. 76
Preview	p. 76
Conditioning Factors in the American Tradition	p. 77
American Ahistoricism	p. 77
Accident of Geography	p. 79
The Anglo-Saxon Heritage	p. 80
Dealing with Dependence on Persian Gulf Oil	p. 81
Evolution of the American Experience	p. 82
The Formative Period, 1789-1945	p. 83
Antimilitary Bias	p. 84
The Citizen-Soldier	p. 85
Myth of Invincibility	p. 86
Mobilization and Demobilization	p. 87
Total War Preference	p. 87
Readiness and Pearl Harbor	p. 88
The Cold War, 1945-1989	p. 89
The Role of the Media	p. 92
The Media and the Iraq War	p. 94
The Impact of Democratic Institutions	p. 95
Conclusion: The Contemporary Period, 1989 to Present	p. 96
Challenge!: How Much Has Changed?	p. 98
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 99
Selected Bibliography	p. 99
The Nature, End, and Consequences of the Cold War	p. 101
Preview	p. 101
The Cold War System	p. 103
Characteristics	p. 105
Better Dead Than Red? Better Red Than Dead?	p. 107
Sources of Change	p. 108
Forms of Military Competition	p. 109
Conventional Forces	p. 111
Nuclear Forces	p. 113
The Capitalist Bomb	p. 115
Deadlock of the Competition	p. 116
The Economic Dimension	p. 116
The Military Dimension	p. 117
Convergence	p. 118
Cold War Residues	p. 121
Russia and the Successor States	p. 121
Chechnya and the Pipeline	p. 123
Challenge!: The Former Soviet Union and the War on Terrorism	p. 124
Russian Resurgence	p. 125
Conclusion: The End of the Cold War in Perspective	p. 127
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 128
Selected Bibliography	p. 128
Globalization and Beyond: New Influences on National Security	p. 130
Preview	p. 130
The Bretton Woods System, 1945-1971	p. 132
The Setting	p. 132
The Bretton Woods Institutions	p. 134
The ITO and the Anti-Free Traders	p. 136
The Breakdown of Bretton Woods	p. 137
The Transitional Period, 1971-1990	p. 139
American Decline	p. 140
American Revival	p. 141
The Globalizing Economy, 1990-Present	p. 142
Characteristics and Values	p. 143
Objections to Globalization	p. 147
The Rejectionists	p. 151
New Additions to the National Security Agenda	p. 152
Conclusion: Globalization and Other Factors in American Security	p. 157
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 159
Selected Bibliography	p. 160
The Changing World	p. 163
Security, Interests, and Power	p. 165
Preview	p. 165
Thinking about Security	p. 166
Military and Nonmilitary Elements of Security	p. 167
Challenge!: Defining Terrorism as a Security Threat	p. 169
Israel, Syria, the Golan Heights, and Water	p. 170
Levels of Security	p. 172
Risk and Risk Management	p. 174
What Should the United States Do About North Korea?	p. 175
Thinking about Interests	p. 177
Levels of Interests	p. 177
Vital and Less-than-Vital Interests and Iraq	p. 180
Security and Interests in the Contemporary Environment	p. 182
Applying Instruments of Power	p. 183
Using the Instruments	p. 184
The Contemporary Balance of Instruments of Power	p. 186
Conclusion: The Changing Nature of Influence	p. 187
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 189
Selected Bibliography	p. 189
The Domestic Environment	p. 191
Preview	p. 191
The Historic Domestic Context	p. 194
The Structure of Domestic Politics	p. 198
The Executive Branch	p. 199
The President, the Constitution, and National Security	p. 200
The Congress	p. 206
The Congress, the Constitution, and National Security	p. 207
Applications: The Homeland Security Response to the Environment	p. 213
The Department of Homeland Security	p. 214
Background and Evolution	p. 214
The Homeland Security Response to September 11	p. 216
Ongoing Problems and Controversies	p. 219
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission	p. 221
Challenge!: The "Angry Librarians" and Civil Liberties	p. 222
Conclusion: The Environment Since September 11, 2001	p. 223
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 224
Selected Bibliography	p. 224
Traditional Military Problems	p. 226
Preview	p. 226
Nuclear Forces and Deterrence	p. 228
Seminal Events of the Nuclear Age	p. 228
Theories of Deterrence	p. 231
Nuclear Residues	p. 233
The Chinese Nuclear Threat	p. 239
Conventional Forces and the Future	p. 241
Traditional Roles	p. 242
Light and Heavy Forces?	p. 245
Traditional Residues	p. 246
Military Manpower	p. 246
Military Reform	p. 247
Challenge!: Military Service After Iraq	p. 248
Creighton Abrams and the Role of the Reserves	p. 251
Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Traditional Forces	p. 252
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 254
Selected Bibliography	p. 254
The Legacies of Iraq	p. 256
Preview	p. 256
Marching or Stumbling into Iraq?	p. 260
The Road to War: Was the United States Justified?	p. 260
Was the Mission Feasible?	p. 263
Hidden Agendas in Iraq?	p. 264
What Went Wrong and Why?	p. 270
Iraq and Vietnam	p. 271
Challenge!: What If It Were All True in Iraq?	p. 273
How Will the Iraq War End?	p. 276
The Legacies of the Iraq War	p. 278
The Political Legacy: Be Careful Where You Intervene	p. 280
The Military Legacy: What Kind of Foe to Prepare For	p. 281
Iraq and the American Military: What Kind of Force	p. 283
The Draft Option	p. 286
Conclusion: Security after Iraq	p. 288
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 288
Selected Bibliography	p. 289
New Challenges	p. 291
Asymmetrical Warfare: The "New Kind of War"	p. 293
Preview	p. 293
Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Warfare	p. 296
Evolution of Asymmetrical Warfare	p. 297
Sun Tzu on Asymmetrical Warfare	p. 298
The Contemporary Setting	p. 300
Asymmetrical Futures?	p. 307
Fourth-Generation Warfare	p. 307
New Internal Wars	p. 311
The "Battle" for Sierra Leone	p. 313
The Iraq Hybrid	p. 315
Conclusion: New Form or New Face of War?	p. 316
Challenge!: Is There a New Kind of War?	p. 317
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 318
Selected Bibliography	p. 318
Terrorism	p. 320
Preview	p. 320
Defining Terrorism	p. 322
Terrorist Acts	p. 323
Terrorist Targets	p. 326
The Morality of Saving Targets	p. 328
Terrorist Objectives	p. 329
Perspectives On and Causes of Terrorism	p. 331
Three Perspectives	p. 331
Three Causes	p. 333
Profiling Suicide Terrorists	p. 335
Terrorism Since September 11	p. 336
The GWOT: Dealing with Terrorism	p. 339
Terrorism Suppression: Antiterrorism and Counterterrorism	p. 342
The Cost-Effectiveness of Suppressing Terrorism	p. 343
International Versus National Efforts	p. 344
Other Aspects of the Problem	p. 345
Conclusion: A Terrorism Strategy?	p. 346
Challenge!: Terrorism and You	p. 349
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 350
Selected Bibliography	p. 350
Peacekeeping and State Building: The New Dilemma	p. 352
Preview	p. 352
The Contemporary Scene	p. 353
Failed and Failing States: The Context	p. 356
What Is a Failed State?	p. 357
Indonesia as a Potentially Failing State	p. 359
Concepts and Forms of Intervention	p. 362
Basic Distinctions	p. 364
Peacekeeping	p. 366
The Talk-Shoot Relationship in Peacekeeping	p. 369
State Building	p. 370
KFOR and UNMIK	p. 376
Challenge!: What Should the United States Do in Afghanistan?	p. 378
Conclusion: The Future of Peacekeeping and State Building	p. 379
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 379
Selected Bibliography	p. 380
Extending Security in a Post-Iraq World	p. 382
Preview	p. 382
Border Security	p. 384
An Impenetrable Border?	p. 391
Natural Resource Security	p. 392
Petroleum Energy Security	p. 392
Water Security	p. 395
Challenge!: Oil and Terror	p. 396
Environmental Security	p. 398
Global Warming	p. 399
The United States and Kyoto	p. 401
Hurricane Katrina	p. 402
Health/Disease Security	p. 404
Conclusion: Expanded Security Horizons	p. 406
Study/Discussion Questions	p. 408
Selected Bibliography	p. 408
Index	p. 410
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