The Changing Face of National Security

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.