Global security and the War on Terror : elite power and the illusion of control / Paul Rogers.
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TextSeries: Contemporary security studiesDescription: viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 0415419379 (hbk)
- 0415419387 (pbk)
- 9780415419376 (hbk)
- 9780415419383 (pbk)
- 355/.033073 23
- UA10.5 .R63 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cold War and old war -- Introduction -- Learning from the Cold War nuclear confrontation (1998) -- Alternative military options in Europe (1989) -- A jungle full of snakes -- Introduction -- Military force projection and the new world order -- (1992) -- Oil and US security (1992) -- Taming the jungle (2000) -- The new security paradigm (2000) -- Force and counterforce -- Introduction -- Directed energy weapons and the control of rogue states (2001) -- Economic targeting and asymmetric warfare (2001) -- After 9/11 -- Introduction -- 11 September and the new American century (2002) -- Iran : consequences of a war (2006) -- An illusion of control -- Introduction -- The war on terror : the first five years -- The long war and the illusion of control.
This volume comprises a selection of Professor Paul Rogers' best essays on security issues from the Cold War to the War on Terror and the Iraq War, arguing that the dominant Western socio-economic security paradigm is fundamentally misguided and unsustainable.
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