World Security: Challenges for a New Century

by Michael T. Klare, Daniel C. Thomas, Yogesh Chandrani

Book Overview

The first of its kind to focus on the concept of world security, this comprehensive collection offers nineteen original essays written by renowned scholars. Now in its third edition, World Security: Challenges for a New Century tackles the most significant challenges to world security in the post-Cold War era, giving a thorough and dynamic introduction to contemporary global issues. Completely revised to address the dramatic changes in the global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312085842
• ISBN13: 9780312085841
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A fairly solid textbook on current security thinking

"World Security" is a book that seeks to introduce readers to the main issues that currently dominate the field of international security today. A selection of some of the topics included in the book are; arms proliferation, ethnic warfare, criminal violence, human migrations, etc... There are 19 different chapters each written by a different author. As such, each chapter does not go into too much detail on their specific topic. Instead, offering the reader only a very introductory survey of the issues.Given this structure I think the book will be most appealing as a textbook for an introductory university course on the issue of international security. But if you are someone looking to gain a cursory understanding of what is at issue then this might be the book for you (although, maybe at softcover prices!)