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- American National Security
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
summary
The sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into account the significant changes in national security policy in the past decade. Thorough revisions reflect a new strategic context and the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the early twenty-first century. Highlights include:
• An examination of the current international environment and new factors affecting U.S. national security policy making
• A discussion of the Department of Homeland Security and changes in the intelligence community
• A survey of intelligence and national security, with special focus on security needs post-9/11
• A review of economic security, diplomacy, terrorism, conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, military intervention, and nuclear deterrence in the changed international setting
• An update of security issues in East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean
• New material on globalization, transnational actors, and human security
Previous editions have been widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Table of Contents
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- Title page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- pp. xv-xviii
- I. National Security Policy: What It Is, and How Americans Have Approached It
- 1. The International Setting
- pp. 3-22
- II. National Security Policy: Actors and Processes
- 5. Congress
- pp. 103-123
- 6. Homeland Security
- pp. 124-146
- 7. Intelligence and National Security
- pp. 147-169
- 9. Planning, Budgeting, and Management
- pp. 191-207
- III. National Security Policy: Ways and Means of National Strategy
- 11. Shaping the International Environment
- pp. 233-246
- 12. Economics
- pp. 247-266
- 13. Military Power
- pp. 267-289
- 15. Conventional War
- pp. 311-327
- 17. Nuclear Policy
- pp. 347-366
- IV. International and Regional Security Issues
- 18. East Asia
- pp. 369-396
- 19. South Asia
- pp. 397-418
- 20. The Middle East
- pp. 419-442
- 21. Sub-Saharan Africa
- pp. 443-461
- 22. Russia
- pp. 462-484
- 23. Europe
- pp. 485-509
- 24. Latin America
- pp. 510-534
- V. National Security Policy: Current and Future Issues in American National Security Policy
- 25. Globalization and Human Security
- pp. 537-556
- 26. Looking Ahead
- pp. 557-578
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421403229
Related ISBN(s)
9780801891540
MARC Record
OCLC
868223063
Pages
688
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No