Confronting the Evolving Global Security Landscape

Helps civilian and military leaders opinion makers scholars and interested citizens come to grips with the realities of the 21st-century global security arena by dissecting lessons from both the past and the present.This book accomplishes four tasks: first it outlines the evolution of the national and international security concept from the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) to the present; second it examines the circular relationship of the elements that define contemporary security; third it provides empirical examples to accompany the discussion of each element-security development governance and sovereignty; and fourth it argues that substantially more sophisticated stability-security concepts policy structures and policymaking precautions are required in order for the United States to play more effectively in the global security arena.Case studies provide the framework to join the various chapters of the book into a cohesive narrative while the theoretical linear analytic method it employs defines its traditional approach to case studies. For each case study it discusses the issue in context findings and outcomes of the issue and conclusions and implications. Issue and Context sections outline the political-historical situation and answer the What? question Findings and Outcome sections answer the Who? Why? How? and So What? questions and Conclusions and Implications sections address Key Points and Lessons.