Publisher's Synopsis
This book illustrates security problems in the post-Cold War period. Targeted for advanced undergraduate and first year postgraduate courses, the volume explains specific policy questions and their links to theoretical understanding. In addition, it investigates the transformation of global society. - - In response to post-Cold War instability in various parts of the world, an international policy making community adopted new strategies. The book's main contribution is to examine the new policy agenda beyond this century. Authors from various leading research and academic institutes, including Norwegian Peace Research Institute, University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University, University of Copenhagen, and United States National Sciences council, assess strengths and weaknesses of peacekeeping, non-offensive defense and sustainable development in a global problem solving process
