Statecraft and Security: The Cold War And Beyond

Ken Booth
Cambridge University Press, 9/13/1998
EAN 9780521479776, ISBN10: 0521479770

Paperback, 372 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English

In this book a group of influential and distinguished scholars analyse some of the key questions in contemporary international relations. The book is in three parts. In the first, the lessons and legacies of Cold War are examined, including debates about its rise and fall, and the implications of the superpower nuclear confrontation. Part II asks questions about powers and politics in the post-Cold War world: the USA's potential as a world leader, Russia's troubled future, Japan's potential power, the China syndrome, and Africa's problems. The final part looks further into the future, discussing international organisation, life politics, and the potentialities for human society under the conditions of globalisation. The book shows how different countries and different groups of countries are confronting urgent issues of statecraft in a period of radical global transformation.

Introduction Ken Booth
Part I. Cold War
Lessons and Legacies
1. Cold Wars of the mind Ken Booth
2. Who is to blame for the Cold War Raymond L. Garthoff
3. Nuclear lessons of the Cold War Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein
4. A Cold War life, and beyond Ken Booth, Michael Clarke, Donald Daniel, Cori Dauber, Michael Herman and John McDonnell
Part II. Post-Cold War
Power and Policies
5. Can the United States lead the world John Steinbruner
6. Can Russia escape its past? Oles M. Smolansky
7. Imperialism, dependency and autocolonialism in the Eurasian space Karen Dawisha
8. Western Europe
challenges of the post-Cold War world Catherine McArdle Kelleher
9. Europe and the wider world
the security challenge Robert O'Neill
10. A new Japan? A new history? Geoffrey Hawthorn
11. New China, new Cold War? Michael Cox
12. Africa
crisis and challenge
13. Of medium powers and middling roles Denis Stairs
Part III. Beyond
Resistances and Re-inventions
14. International peace and security in the twenty-first century Barry M. Blechman
15. Affluence, poverty and the idea of a post-scarcity society Anthony Giddens
16. The future of the human past Philip Allott
Conclusion
security within global transformation Ken Booth
Index.