International Security Challenges in a Changing World

Author(s): Mustafa Aydin, Jeffrey P. Bradford, Gilles Carbonnier, Richard A. Falkenrath, Ann Fitz-Gerald, Anthony Forster, Elisabeth Hausschild, Joachim Krause, Sonia Lucarel, Carlo Masala, Claude Nicolet, Leif Ohlsson, Maree Reid, Gideon Rose, Kurt R. Spillmann, Kori Schake, Astrid Scharf, Barna Zsigmond
Editor(s): Joachim Krause, Kurt R. Spillmann
Publisher(s): Peter Lang, Bern, Switzerland
Other issuing bodies: Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
ISBN: 3-906763-68-4
Date of publication: 1999
Volume number: 3
Issue number: 1
Format: PDF
Pages: 349
Available for purchase: Yes
URL: www.peterlang.com
Series: Studies in Contemporary History and Security Policy

Description: During the 1990s, the nature of world affairs underwent significant change unparalleled since the end of World War II. The decade witnessed neither a "New World Order" nor the "End of History". The new world could rather be characterized as one in which we could find a juxtaposition of order and disorder. It is against this backdrop that this book addresses the future of strategic studies with particular emphasis on the following four areas: the possibilities and opportunities present in enlarging the Western zone of cooperatively organized international affairs; regional security problems and dynamics; new security challenges; and the future instruments and dimensions of security policy. The book contains contributions by scholars working in the fields of international relations and security studies.

General note: This book offers a selection of papers presented at the 1997 New Faces Conferences in Bonn, Germany, and its 1998 successor at Chexbres, Switzerland. © 1999 Peter Lang AG
Bibliographic note: Includes a selected bibliography and biographical information on the contributors.


Chapter/Sections:

• Contents
• Preface
• General Introduction
• Problems and Prospects in Implementing the Initial Enlargement Round
• Prospects and Problems for Further Enlargement of NATO
• The Arab-Israeli Peace Process
• Demographic Pressure and Ecological Restraints
• Admitting the Inevitable
• Regional Security Issues and Conflicts in the Caucasus and the Caspian Regions
• The Asia-Pacific: A Zone of Co-operative Security or a Hotbed for Conflicts?
• Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Terrorism
• Information and Vulnerabilities
• Modern and Information Warfare
• Water Scarcity and Conflict
• Energy Security and the Middle East 
• Conflict Prevention in Post-Cold War Europe
• The Dayton Peace Accords
• The Challenges of Rebuilding War-torn Economies
• The Cooperative Security Structures of the Western World
• About the Authors
• Agendas and List of Participants at the New Faces Conferences 1997 and 1998
• Research and Development