Iraq can be considered the 'perfect storm' which brought out the stark differences between the US and Europe. The disagreement over the role of the United Nations continues and the bitterness in the ...United States against its betrayal by allies like France is not diminishing. Meanwhile, the standing of the United States among the European public has plummeted. Within Europe, political tensions between what US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld euphemistically called the 'Old' Europe and the 'New' Europe continue to divide. To fully comprehend these rifts, this volume takes a specific look at the core security priorities of each European state and whether these interests are best served through closer security collaboration with the US or with emerging European structures such as the European Rapid Reaction Force. It analyzes the contribution each state would make to transatlantic security, the role they envisage for existing security structures such as NATO, and the role the US would play in transatlantic security.
Contents: Introduction: US security policy and the new Europe, Tom Lansford. Old Europe: French security agenda in the post-9/11 world, Robert J. Pauly, Jr; A changing view of responsibility? German security policy in the post-9/11 world, Scott Brunstetter; Britain and transatlantic security: negotiating two bridges far apart, Mary Troy Johnston; Russia and the 'Old' Europe versus 'New' Europe debate: US foreign policy and the Iraq War 2003, Mira Duric; Benelux security policy, Dirk C. van Raemdonck; Italian security in the Berlusconi era: business as usual, Mark Sedgwick. New Europe: In search of security: Bulgaria's security policy in transition, Blagovest Tashev; The dilemma of 'dual loyalty': Lithuania and transatlantic tensions, Dovile Budryte; Czech Republic's Role with regard to the trans-atlantic security challenges, Petr Vancura; Poland's security and transatlantic relations, Andrzej Kapiszewski with Chris Davis; Slovakia, Ivo Samson; Hungary, László Valki; Romania's position towards the evolution of the transatlantic link after 11 September 2001, Mihail E. Ionescu; Conclusion: values and interests: European support for the intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, Michael Mihalka; Select Bibliography; Index.
Tom Lansford is Assistant Dean for the College of Arts and Letters, and Associate Professor of Political Science, at the University of Southern Mississippi in Long Beach, Mississippi, USA. Blagovest Tashev is Director, Security Studies Program, George C. Marshall Association-Bulgaria and Adjunct Professor, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, Bulgaria.
Why do leading actors invest in costly projects that they expect will not yield appreciable military or economic benefits? We identify a causal process in which concerns about legitimacy produce ...attempts to secure dominance in arenas of high symbolic value by investing wealth and labor into unproductive (in direct military and economic terms) goods and performances. We provide evidence for our claims through a comparative study of the American Project Apollo and the Ming Dynasty's treasure fleets. We locate our argument within a broader constructivist and practice-theoretic understanding of hierarchy and hegemony. We build on claims that world politics is a sphere of complex social stratification by viewing constituent hierarchies in terms of social fields. Our specific theory and broader framework, we contend, provide tools for understanding the workings of power politics beyond military and economic competition.
In Innovate to
Dominate , Tai Ming Cheung offers insight
into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to
become the world's preeminent technological and security
power . This ...examination of the means and ends of China's
quest for techno-security supremacy is required reading for anyone
looking for clues as to the long-term direction of the global
order. The techno-security domain, Cheung argues, is where national
security, innovation, and economic development converge, and it has
become the center of power and prosperity in the twenty-first
century. China's paramount leader Xi Jinping recognizes that
effectively harnessing the complex interactions among security,
innovation, and development is essential in enabling China to
compete for global dominance. Cheung offers a richly detailed
account of how China is building a potent techno-security state. In
Innovate to Dominate he takes readers from the strategic
vision guiding this transformation to the nuts-and-bolts of policy
implementation. The state-led top-down mobilizational model that
China is pursuing has been a winning formula so far, but the
sternest test is ahead as China begins to compete head-to-head with
the United States and aims to surpass its archrival by mid-century
if not sooner. Innovate to Dominate is a timely and
analytically rigorous examination of the key strategies guiding
China's transformation of its capabilities in the national,
technological, military, and security spheres and how this is
taking place. Cheung authoritatively addresses the burning
questions being asked in capitals around the world: Can China
become the dominant global techno-security power? And if so,
when?
The spectre and fear of another terrorist attack looms large for most of the world's citizenry and for the domestic law agencies charged with protecting these citizens and countries. This book ...explores how various countries have dealt with or are dealing with homeland security in the aftermath of terrorist attacks such as 9/11, the underground tube attacks in London in 2005, the Madrid train bombing in Spain, and compares global approaches and lessons to the US and the world. This unique study looks at homeland security law and policy utilizing a comparative analysis methodology ideal for those interested in law and security.
...by the nature and mission of the journal, authors have pushed the boundaries of knowledge; potholes in our understanding of homeland security have been filled, excavated, and re-filled; ...controversial ideas have been introduced and either settled, adapted, or discarded through inquiry and challenge. Chris framed the definition of homeland security not as one-and-done, but as seven reasonable interpretations that made us think more generously about the melting pot of security cultures and issues that emerged following 9/11. The essential questions Chris asked then echo today and provide fertile ground for the natural evolution of how we think about and do homeland security, while providing a forcing function to avoid the complacency that often comes with certainty.
The article deals with the issues of energy security as an important component of the national security of the country. There is growing uncertainty about safe access to reliable energy supplies at ...reasonable prices.
An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextension Russia and China are both believed to have "grand strategies"-detailed ...sets of national security goals backed by means, and plans, to pursue them. In the United States, policy makers have tried to articulate similar concepts but have failed to reach a widespread consensus since the Cold War ended. While the United States has been the world's prominent superpower for over a generation, much American thinking has oscillated between the extremes of isolationist agendas versus interventionist and overly assertive ones. Drawing on historical precedents and weighing issues such as Russia's resurgence, China's great rise, North Korea's nuclear machinations, and Middle East turmoil, Michael O'Hanlon presents a well'researched, ethically sound, and politically viable vision for American national security policy. He also proposes complementing the Pentagon's set of "4+1" pre'existing threats with a new "4+1": biological, nuclear, digital, climatic, and internal dangers.
As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in "climate ...change war games," and preparing for the effects of climate change-from conflicts due to loss of food, water, and energy to the mass migration of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels. This combat-oriented stance stems from a self-destructive pattern of thought that Robert P. Marzec names "environmentality," an attitude that has been affecting human-environmental relations since the seventeenth century.
Militarizing the Environmenttraces the rise of this influential mindset in America and other nations that threatens to supplant ideas of sustainability with demands for adaptation. In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society-informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
Now embedded in contemporary Western thought, environmentality has even infiltrated scientific thinking-transforming Darwinian insights into a quasi-theology that makes security the biological basis of existence. Marzec exposes the self-destructive nature of this increasingly accepted worldview and offers alternatives that counter the blind alleys of national and global security.
This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication, and analysis ...of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such as: privacy; autonomy; threats to national security and democracy by foreign states; and accountability for liberal democracies. This volume provides a comprehensive set of in-depth ethical analyses of these problems by combining contributions from both ethics scholars and intelligence practitioners. It provides the reader with a practical understanding of relevant operations, the issues that they raise, and analysis of how responses to these issues can be informed by a commitment to liberal democratic values. This combination of perspectives is crucial in providing an informed appreciation of ethical challenges that is also grounded in the realities of the practice of intelligence. This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, foreign policy, and International Relations.
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