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Author Kay, Sean, 1967-2020

Title Global security in the twenty-first century : the quest for power and the search for peace / Sean Kay

Edition Second edition
Imprint Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2012]
©2012

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 KEN Main  JZ5588 .K39 2012     AVAILABLE
  
Description viii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format volume
  
Bibliography notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Complete contents The dynamics of global security -- The quest for power -- The search for peace -- Great powers and grand strategy -- Regional flashpoints -- Technology and the business of security -- Asymmetrical conflict -- Human security -- The environment and energy security -- Meeting the challenges of power and peace
Summary This thoroughly updated edition offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the world. The author assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the Middle East, Asia, and Eurasia. He focuses especially on the implications of the election of Barack Obama and the changing role of the United States in global security. This edition builds the emphasis on the role of trade and technology, the militarization of space, the privatization of security, the use of sanctions, ethnic conflict, and transnational crime. It goes even farther to incorporate traditional thinking about national security in the context of human rights, democracy, population, health, environment, energy, and especially education
  
Subject Security, International
Peace
  
ISBN/ISSN 9781442206137
1442206136
9781442206144
1442206144
9781442206151
1442206152
LCCN 2011010697
OCLC # 707023102