The Changing Face of National Security: A Conceptual Analysis (Contributions in Military Studies)

By Robert Mandel

Book Overview

This book contains a probing and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the emerging notion of national security in light of the dramatic post-Cold War transformation of the international system. It begins with a discussion of the nature of this change, emphasizing declining national sovereignty, escalating international interdependence, and proliferating anarchic conflict. After developing a framework of the conceptual components of national security, this study focuses on analyzing change--both in priorities and tradeoffs--in military security, economic security, resource/environmental security, and political/cultural security. Brief case studies of the 1991 Gulf War, the 1991 Maastricht Treaty, the 1992 Earth Summit, and the ongoing Yugoslavia conflict illustrate the theoretical contentions. Finally, a set of crucial, fundamental security policy challenges and responses conclude the book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313285195
• ISBN13: 9780313285196
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"