Contemporary Security and Strategy

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1 SUB Hamburg A/ Contemporary Security and Strategy Third Edition Edited by Craig A. Snyder macmillan

2 Contents List of Boxes, Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations xii xiii xiv xvii 1 Contemporary Security and Strategy 1 Craig A. Snyder The study of security 2 Development of strategic studies during the Cold War 5 Post-Cold War developments and the shift in thinking 8 Structure of this book 10 Glossary of key concepts 15 Questions for discussion 15 Further reading 15 2 Realism and Security Studies 17 Sean M. Lynn-Jones Introduction 17 What is realism? 18 The development of realist thought 22 Criticisms of realism 24 Realism and critical security studies 27 Realism and the democratic peace 28 Debates in contemporary realist theory 30 The future of realism 34 Realism and contemporary security studies 40 Conclusion 41 Glossary of key concepts 42 Questions for discussion 43 Further reading 43 3 Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking on the New Security Studies 45 David Mutimer Beyond strategy: security, critical theory and the end of the Cold War 47 Whose security? 49 How to achieve security 54 vn

3 viii Contents How to study security 60 Critical Security Studies 66 Conclusion: beyond security? 68 Glossary of key concepts 70 Questions for discussion 70 Further reading 71 4 Environmental Security 72 Dean Coldicott and Thomas O'Brien Introduction 72 Environmental security of the state 73 Ecological security 77 The environment-conflict nexus 79 Environment and human security 82 Securitization and governance 84 Conclusion 86 Glossary of key concepts 87 Questions for discussion 87 Further reading 88 5 Human Security 89 /. Peter Burgess and Jonas Grans Introduction 89 The concept of human security 90 Key conceptual and theoretical debates around human security 93 Understanding the security in human security 95 Human security in practice 96 Conclusion 101 Glossary of key concepts 103 Questions for discussion 103 Further reading Security Implications of the Arms Trade 105 Mike Bourne Conventional arms, military expenditure and security 106 Small arms and light weapons (SALW) 108 The developing SALW regime 110 Implementation 116 Transfer controls 116 Marking and tracing 119 Stockpile controls 120 Disarmament 122 Monitoring and transparency 123 Conclusion: future direction 124 Glossary of key concepts 126

4 Contents ix Questions for discussion 126 Further reading Thinking and Rethinking the Causes of War 128 /. Marshall Beier Theory and impasse 130 Causae belli: sketching the terrain of debate 132 Out of bounds: the political beyond the debates 137 New ways of war and old ways of thinking 140 Conclusion: rethinking war and the questions we ask 143 Glossary of key concepts 145 Questions for discussion 145 Further reading The Evolution of Strategy and the New World Order 147 Geoffrey Till Introduction: on strategy in general 147 Strategic thinking: the traditional schools 152 The second wave 153 Inter-war airpower theory 157 Blitzkrieg ideas 159 Military thinking in the Cold War 162 Post-Cold War challenges 166 The military strategies of the post-cold War era 166 The expeditionary impulse 169 Peace support operations 171 Security and counter-terrorism operations 171 Glossary of key concepts 173 Questions for discussion 173 Further reading The Transformation of War 175 Andrew Latham and Kabir Sethi Introduction 175 Transformation of the 'warfighting paradigm' 177 Transformation in the 'social mode of warfare' 184 Transformation in the 'historical structure of war' 186 Conclusion 196 Glossary of key concepts 197 Questions for discussion 199 Further reading Nuclear Strategy 201 Andy Butfoy Introduction 201 US nuclear strategy 202

5 x Contents The other nuclear powers 210 Conclusion 217 Glossary of key concepts 219 Questions for discussion 220 Further reading Challenges and Opportunities for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime 222 J.D. Kenneth Boutin Introduction 222 The horizontal nuclear non-proliferation regime 223 Threats to the nuclear non-proliferation regime 229 Non-proliferation directions and implications 237 Conclusion 238 Glossary of key concepts 239 Questions for discussion 239 Further reading Terrorism and Insurgency 241 Michael Boyle What is terrorism? 242 The causes of terrorism 245 Al-Qaeda and the future of terrorism 252 What is insurgency? 256 The dilemmas of counter-insurgency 259 Conclusion 262 Glossary of key concepts 263 Questions for discussion 263 Further reading Intervention: The Utility of Force in International Politics 265 Michael Arnold Definition of intervention 266 Types of intervention 268 Non-peace operations 269 Peace operations 273 To intervene or not to intervene 276 Criteria for success 278 What are the mechanics of a successful intervention? 281 Conclusion: the future of military intervention 286 Glossary of key concepts 287 Questions for discussion 287 Further reading 288

6 Contents xi 14 Great Powers and the International System Nick Bisley Introduction Great powers, definitions and history Great powers: a quaint anachronism? The greatest great power Glossary of key concepts Questions for discussion Further reading 15 Regional Security and Regional Conflict Craig A. Snyder What is a region? Regionalism New regionalism theory Development of regional security Regional security threats Conclusion Glossary of key concepts Questions for discussion Further reading Bibliography Index