Download or read book Non Military Security and Global Order written by P. Chalk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the evolving nature of national and international security in the post-Cold War era, focusing on non-military threat potentials and how these may best be countered. Six specific issues are discussed: terrorism, the heroin and cocaine trade, piracy, environmental degradation, the spread of disease and uncontrolled migration. The book concludes that greater national coordination, inter-agency cooperation and international collaboration is needed if these problems are going to be dealt with effectively.

Download or read book Non Military Security and Global Order written by Peter Chalk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of non-military security issues in the post-Cold War era.

Download or read book Non military Aspects of International Security written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises eight essays which discuss non-military aspects of international security, such as ecological security, economic security, social and cultural origins of violence, and the human factor.

Download or read book Economic Security Neglected Dimension of National Security written by National Defense University (U S ) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.

Download or read book United Nations Protection of Humanity and Its Habitat written by Bertrand G. Ramcharan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the future of international law as well as the future of the United Nations. It is the first study ever bringing together the laws, policies and practices of the UN for the protection of the earth, the oceans, outer space, human rights, victims of armed conflicts and of humanitarian emergencies, the poor, the vulnerable and the disadvantaged world-wide. It reviews unprecedented dangers and challenges facing humanity such as climate change and weapons of mass destruction, and argues that the international law of the future must become an international law of security and of protection. It submits that the concept of international security in the UN Charter can no longer be restricted to situations of armed conflict but must be given its natural meaning: whatever threatens the security of humanity. It calls for the Security Council to perform its role as the guardian of the security of humankind and sees a leadership role for the UN Secretary-General in analysing and presenting challenges of international security and protection to the Security Council for its attention. Written by a seasoned scholar / practitioner of international law and the United Nations, who has served in key policy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and human rights positions in the United Nations, this book offers indispensable new vistas of international law and policy, and the future role of the United Nations.

Download or read book The Sheriff written by Colin S. Gray and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, few issues have been more hotly debated than the United States' role in the world. In this hard-nosed but sophisticated examination, Colin S. Gray argues that America is the indispensable guardian of world order. Gray's constructive critique of recent trends in national security is holistic, rooting defense issues and prospective answers both in U.S. national security policy, broadly defined, and in the emerging international security environment. Colin S. Gray is professor of international politics and strategic studies at the University of Reading, England, and senior fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the author of seventeen books, including Modern Strategy and Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History.

Download or read book Making Strategy written by Dennis M. Drew and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National secuirty strategy is a vast subject involving a daunting array of interrelated subelements woven in intricate, sometimes vague, and ever-changing patterns. Its processes are often irregular and confusing and are always based on difficult decisions laden with serious risks. In short, it is a subject understood by few and confusing to most. It is, at the same time, a subject of overwhelming importance to the fate of the United States and civilization itself. Col. Dennis M. Drew and Dr. Donald M. Snow have done a considerable service by drawing together many of the diverse threads of national security strategy into a coherent whole. They consider political and military strategy elements as part of a larger decisionmaking process influenced by economic, technological, cultural, and historical factors. I know of no other recent volume that addresses the entire national security milieu in such a logical manner and yet also manages to address current concerns so thoroughly. It is equally remarkable that they have addressed so many contentious problems in such an evenhanded manner. Although the title suggests that this is an introductory volume - and it is - I am convinced that experienced practitioners in the field of national security strategy would benefit greatly from a close examination of this excellent book. Sidney J. Wise Colonel, United States Air Force Commander, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education

Download or read book Global Order and Security Privatization written by Herbert Howe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation-states are losing their monopoly over military might. Private security firms are filling a void by offering military services and security for national governments and non-governmental organizations. Private security firms may be a threat to global security because they lack accountability, act as strongmen for multinational companies, and may prolong conflicts for greater profits. Elimination of "mercenary" behavior is impossible and probably undesirable: private groups can offer some useful services. The international community should establish international regulations which could ensure that private companies assist global security.

Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

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Download or read book Defining National Security written by Joseph J. Romm and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Council on Foreign Relations Press, 58 East 68th St., New York, NY 10021. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Global Security in a Multipolar World written by Feng Zhongping and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Governance Without Government written by James N. Rosenau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world government capable of controlling nation-states has never evolved, but governance does underlie order among states and gives direction to problems arising from global interdependence. This book examines the ideological bases and behavioural patterns of this governance without government.

Download or read book Regions and Powers written by Barry Buzan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.

Download or read book The United Nations and a New World Order for a New Millennium written by Edward McWhinney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The errors - military, political, and not least diplomatic - in the continuing unfolding of the Yugoslav tragedy over the decade since the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the final ending of the Cold War, offer certain lessons. It had been confidently predicted that the complex, multi-national Yugoslav state created by the World War I victors at Versailles in 1919, and continued by the post-World War II peace settlements, would not long survive Marshal Tito's death. As it happened, when the moment of truth arrived the concert of Western European powers had no clear and coherent plans ready for a rational brokering of the resulting problems of State Succession, including renewed federal or confederal structures, and peaceful and orderly transfer and relocation of civil populations if fragmentation and independence were to be the immediate policy options. The rush to a 'premature' State Recognition by one or more leading Western European political players, without having any congress of Berlin-style game-plan ready to guide and direct this, may have triggered the on-rush of political and military events that led, in quick succession, to the Bosnian and then the Kosovo tragedies of the 1990s. The author, currently President of the Institut de Droit International and a jurisconsult and advisor, over the years, to international and national governmental authorities, examines consequences and challenges for International Law and Law-making, as we enter the new Millennium. Taking note of the antinomies and contradictions inherent in Classical International Law Categories like Territorial Integrity and the Self-determination of Peoples, the Non-Use-of-Force and Collective (regional) Self-Defence, the author considers, in particular, the direct conflict, in the case of both Bosnia and Kosovo, between the United Nations Charter principle of Non-Intervention and the claimed 'New' International Law principle of Humanitarian Intervention. The legally permissible modalities and structures and processes for exercise of Humanitarian Intervention, in accord with the United Nations Charter and also general International Law, are canvassed and weighed.

Download or read book The Evolution of International Security Studies written by Barry Buzan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, 'new agenda' or critical.

Download or read book The Regulation of International Coercion written by James P Terry and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant discourse about serious threats to U.S. national security in thetwenty-first century will likely concern the military capabilities and intentions ofnonstate actors, acting either for themselves, for religious elites, or as surrogates forstate sponsors. This preoccupation results not from any inordinate fear of "terrorism"but from a recognition of objective military and political realities. While prior to 1991only the Soviet Union possessed the capacity to inflict catastrophic military destructionon the United States, today that threat is vested in terrorist cells and religious sects thatseek to destroy the fabric of the United States through unconventional military andparamilitary means. The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 bear this out. During the Cold War, the major threat to the United States was clearly the fear of miscalculationby the Soviets. Today, that threat has been recharacterized in terms of deliberateaggression against the United States by nontraditional actors willing to take suicidal risksto inflict premeditated, brutal savagery on innocent civilians in a manner designed toforce not so much regime change directly as policy changes that affect regime change.Commitment to national security is only as valid as the policies and plans, military, economic, and political, that shape the areas and people from which these threats originate.The problem always has been to determine which policies, and how applied, makethe greatest contribution to countering the threat--a threat now represented by socialand religious systems that foster or at least condone aggressive response to differing religiousand social values. This has never been more true than in Afghanistan and inIraq. Security, then, means more than simply protecting the land on which we live; itembraces a comprehensive understanding of the appropriate response to human aspirationsfor improved conditions of life, for equality of opportunity, and for justice andfreedom. Where these interests are thwarted for peoples or groups within a particularstate or region by armed protagonists representing narrow, restrictive interests, our responsemust be one measured by the effective institutionalization of order. This monograph first examines the relationship between law and the use of force, to includea review of the principles of legal justification, the legal criteria for self-defense, andthe policy of deterrence followed by the United States. It then examines the characteristicdifferences between the interpretive approaches taken by national and nonnational entitiesin their respective claims and counterclaims during international crises. Chapter 2, which concludes Part I, is focused on the historical aspects of the minimumworld order system, which today comprises the prohibition against the use of force byone state against another embodied in Article 2, paragraph 4, of the United NationsCharter, with the exception inherent in customary international law and in Article 51of the Charter that every state is authorized to use force in self-defense. A review of thepre-Charter system focuses on the development of the nation-state and the threads ofinternational law development leading to multilateral agreements vice solely bilateralaccords. The period following World War I, with the emergence of the League of Nations, is examined for its significance as an important source of the Charter of theUnited Nations. The structuring of the Charter is then addressed in terms of the conceptof aggression and lawful response to aggression. Chapter 2 concludes with a reviewof the law of self-defense as defined first under customary international law andthen under the UN Charter. Part II addresses lesser conflicts. Chapter 3 addresses instances where intervention isauthorized in defense of humanitarian values defined in the UN Charter. The recenthumanitarian interventions in the Congo and in Kosovo provide examples of authorizedhumanitarian initiatives. Chapter 4 examines the American intervention in Panamain 1989 as we intervened both to protect our interests under the Panama CanalTreaty and to ensure the safety of U.S. nationals present in Panama pursuant to thatagreement. Chapter 5 reviews those conflicts in which terrorist violence by individuals, groups of individuals, and state-supported terrorist elements create a right to respondthrough military force by the target state. The attacks by Iranian militants in 1979 andby al-Qa'ida in 2001 spearhead the discussion of lawful response to terrorist violence.Chapter 5 argues that an effective counterterrorism strategy must ensure that enforcementmeasures are not legally constrained and that people responsible for terrorist actsare consistently held accountable by regional and international organizations. This expandingbody of international law, when coupled with increasingly effective nationallegislation, appears to be arming the victims of terrorism with some of the legal instrumentsnecessary to combat the threat. This chapter concludes that governmental responseto state-supported terror violence, where the elements of necessity andproportionality are met, is clearly supported by customary international law and theUN Charter. Part III, consisting of chapters 6 and 7, addresses examples of major conflict. These areconflicts that have involved aggression by one or more nation-states against anothernation-state, as opposed to the intervention by nations or coalitions of nations in responseto either humanitarian crises or terrorist violence. In these major conflicts, thesovereignty of a nation is normally in dispute.While not necessarily exhibiting greaterdestructiveness than "lesser" conflicts, the more traditional international conflicts addressedin Part III invoke the law-of-war principles reflected in the Hague Conventionsof 1899 and 1907 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Chapter 6 examines the coalition response to Iraqi aggression in 1990-91 during OperationDESERT STORM. It contrasts the illegality of the actions of the Iraqi regime ofSaddam Hussein with the responses of the coalition led by the United States, whichsucceeded in liberating Kuwait and returning its borders to the status quo ante. Thechapter begins with a discussion of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the response of theUnited Nations, leading up to the decision to use force. It then examines the conduct ofarmed hostilities by both sides during the war. The chapter concludes with observationson the role of law in the successes and failures of the postwar enforcement regimein Iraq. Chapter 7, Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, examines the Bush administration's decision toinvade Iraq in March 2003 and enforce a long series of UN Security Council resolutionsaddressing Iraqi threats to international peace and security. This chapter examinesthese Iraqi violations in the context of international law principles justifyingintervention.More significantly, it examines the right of states to enforce mandates issuedby the Security Council and to redress violations of its edicts when the Council, asa body, refuses to do so. Part IV addresses U.S. policy for peace operations. The United States has voted to supportthe United Nations and NATO in providing multilateral forces to restore internationalpeace and security. The United Nations was involved in both Chapter VI(peacekeeping) and Chapter VII (peace enforcement) operations in the 1990s, withlimited success. Chapter 8, "Development of Criteria for Peace Operations," looks atthe limitations inherent in UN leadership of such operations, citing the UN failures inSomalia and Bosnia. The success of NATO as the leadership element in Kosovo in 1998was significant and may foreshadow a new era for the role of regional organizations(discussed in chapter 9) under Chapter VIII of the UN Charter.Part V concerns itself with special areas of legal concern that warrant considerationwith regard to legal justification for military response to international coercion. Thispart, "Challenges for the Twenty-first Century," addresses the right of states to respondto threats to, and attacks on, critical infrastructure. Chapter 10 examines what rights, if any, in self-defense are triggered by attacks on infrastructure systems critical to our nationalpolitical and economic integrity. Chapter 11," "concerning computer network attack, takes this one step farther and examines the authority that international lawprovides to nations wishing to protect these systems aggressively, through preemptivedefense. Chapter 11 carefully analyzes the right to target computer networks of nationsthat have expressed "clear indicators of attack." Finally, recommendations are offered toenhance the ability of the international legal system to support and embrace, stronglyand legally, computer-generated data-warfare responses to such aggression. This Newport Paper examines representative instances where force has recently beenused in international relations, the circumstances under which it was used, the instructiveinternational policy and legal constructs that can be applied, and the relationshipof these policies to the minimum world order system established in Articles 2(4) and51 of the United Nations Charter. That system, defined more fully in the pages that follow, provides a complementary structure that prohibits and counters the unlawful, aggressiveuse of force, on the one hand, and permits national and collective self-defense, on the other, in a manner designed to meet both the traditional threats representedduring the Cold War and the nontraditional threats we have seen recently and can expectin the future.