Discusses the impact of globalisation on security in the West and in particular the way it has changed the nature of NATO as well as its security agenda.

While political connections between Ireland and Scotland have been vigorously promoted in recent years, Ray Ryan's book is the first sustained, comparative study of literature and culture from both sites. Analyzing a broad range of Irish and Scottish literary texts, Ryan shifts attention from the traditionally defined canon of Irish culture, and establishes the relevance of Scotland for any future discussion of Irish cultural contexts.

What makes a novel a novel? How does a novel create a world different from that of drama or poetry? What kinds of truth can be told uniquely by the novel? And what role can the literary critic play in the egalitarian age of the Internet? The attempt to capture the multifariousness of experience through character, narrative and style is at the heart of the novelist s art, and it is evaluated and celebrated in the thirteen specially commissioned essays collected here. The Good of the Novel brings together some of today s most perceptive critics, several of them novelists themselves, and puts...