Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first CenturyThe attacks in New York and Washington on 11th September 2001 took most of the world by surprise. It showed that, for those living in the West, the threat of terrorist attack is now very real. Maintaining control of global security has become a matter of paramount importance to all Western governments. As the war against 'terrorism' widens into a war against particular states who may have played little part in the disaster, the idea that we can maintain global security by desperately clinging to our current security paradigm becomes increasingly improbable. In Losing Control, Paul Rogers calls for a radical re-thinking of western perceptions of security that embraces a willingness to address the core issues of global insecurity. This acclaimed book has already become an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the current crisis, and this updated edition contains a new preface and a new chapter which address the specific problems that have arisen since the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Drawing on examples from around the world, Rogers analyses the legacy of the Cold War’s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; the impact of human activity on the global ecosystem; the growth of hypercapitalism and resulting poverty and insecurity; the competition for energy resources and strategic minerals; biological warfare programmes; and paramilitary actions against centres of power. |
Contents
Learning from the Cold War | 11 |
Nuclear Futures | 39 |
Taming the Jungle | 58 |
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| Title | Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century Global Security in the Twenty-First Century |
| Author | Paul Rogers |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Nov 23, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0745319106, 9780745319100 |
| Length | 184 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / International Relations / General Political Science / Political Economy Political Science / Security (National & International) |
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