National Security and International Relations (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9780415835732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 118 str.

Peter Mangold

Opis

First published in 1990, National Security and International Relations provides a concise analysis of the problem of national security in the twentieth century. It examines the criteria by which states decide what level of security they want to seek in an uncertain and essentially Hobbesian world, and why some states tend to underinsure, while obsessively insecure states overinsure, frequently making others more insecure in the process. In the wake of two world wars and the threat of nuclear destruction, the book argues that war was becoming as much a source of insecurity as the intentions of other states. It then explores the different approaches attempted during the twentieth century to ameliorate or ideally escape from the security dilemma. These range from international regimes, to the restructuring of the international politics of Western Europe so as to substitute cooperation for conflict, and U.S. and Soviet attempts to render nuclear competition safer through arms control and confidence building measures.Of special value to students of International Relations and Strategic Studies, this book will also interest those keen to understand the challenges embodied in Gorbachev's 'new thinking' in foreign policy.

Spis treści

Preface;  1. Problems and definitions  2. Risk-taking and underinsurance  3. Fear, default and overinsurance  4. The fear of war  5. Breaking out  6. Common security  7. The international dimension  8. Conclusions and implications;  Select bibliography;  Index.

O autorze

Peter Mangold has worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Research Department and the BBC World Service, and is currently Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written widely on international affairs and is the author of National Security and International Relations (Routledge, 1990; Routledge Revivals, 2013).