American National Security or The Green State

American National Security

Author: Amos A Jordan

This fifth edition of American National Security is a timely update of a classic classroom text, providing contemporary perspectives on limited war, economic challenges to national security, and research and development. It reviews the changing security environment in key regions of the world: Russia, East Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Europe. And it identifies the issues that the United States must face in the next century: peace operations, conflict and arms control, and the widening array of missions undertaken by U.S. armed forces.

"We have chosen to emphasize 'power,' broadly defined, as the central dimension of international and national security. This is not to deny that various trends and forces are increasingly pressing states toward more cooperative, less confrontational behavior; rather it is to focus on the fact that on important issues many states -- including all the great powers -- apply a power calculus in dealing with other international actors." -- from the fifth edition of American National Security

Praise for previous editions:

"A classic text, widely used in universities... It does an exemplary job of explaining the process of defining and implementing national security objectives. Hardly any significant subject is omitted from this very rich and readable volume." -- Foreign Affairs

Contents

Foreword by Senator Sam Nunn

Part I -- National Security Policy: What Is It, and How Have Americans Approached It?

1. National Security: The International Setting

2. Military Power and the Role of Force in the Post-Cold War Era

3. Traditional American Approaches toNational Security

4. The Evolution of American National Security Policy

Part II -- National Security Policy

5. Presidential Leadership and the Executive Branch in National Security

6. The Impact of Congress on National Security Policy

7. Intelligence and National Security

8. The Role of Military in the National Security Policy Process

9. Defense Planning, Budgeting, and Management

10. The National Security Decision-making Process: Putting the Pieces Together

Part III -- Issues of National Strategy

11. Low-level Conflict

12. Limited War

13. Nuclear Strategy

Economic Challenges to National Security

15. Research and Development

Part IV -- International and Regional Security Issues

16. Russia

17. East Asia

18. The Middle East

19. Sun-Sarahan Africa

20. Latin America

21. Europe

Part V: Approaches to National Security for the Early Twenty-first Century

22. Peace Operations

23. Conflict and Arms Control

24. National Security Perspectives for the Early Twenty-first Century

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Provides contemporary perspectives on limited war, economic challenges to national security, and research and development. Reviews the changing security environment in key regions of the world, and identifies issues that the US must face in the next century, such as peace operations, conflict and arms control, and the widening array of missions undertaken by US armed forces. Includes discussion questions, plus b&w maps and political cartoons. This fifth edition is updated since 1993. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Abbreviations
I	National Security Policy: What Is It, and How Have Americans Approached It?
1	National Security: The International Setting	3
2	Military Power and the Role of Force in the Post-Cold War Era	26
3	Traditional American Approaches to National Security	48
4	The Evolution of American National Security Policy	64
II	National Security Policy: Actors and Processes
5	Presidential Leadership and the Executive Branch in National Security	93
6	The Impact of Congress on National Security Policy	123
7	Intelligence and National Security	143
8	The Role of the Military in the National Security Policy Process	171
9	Defense Planning, Budgeting, and Management	196
10	The National Security Decision-making Process: Putting the Pieces Together	217
III	Issues of National Strategy
11	Low-level Conflict	237
12	Limited War	256
13	Nuclear Strategy	274
14	Economic Challenges to National Security	290
15	Research and Development	316
IV	International and Regional Security Issues
16	Russia	337
17	East Asia	360
18	The Middle East	392
19	Sub-Saharan Africa	430
20	Latin America	453
21	Europe	483
V	Approaches to National Security for the Early Twenty-first Century
22	Peace Operations	507
23	Conflict and Arms Control	525
24	National Security Perspectives for the Early Twenty-first Century	544
	Notes	561
	Index	599

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The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty

Author: Robyn Eckersley

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state -- seeking, she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pessimistic resignation to the status quo." In recent years, most environmental scholars and environmentalists have characterized the sovereign state as ineffectual and have criticized nations for perpetuating ecological destruction. Going consciously against the grain of much current thinking, this book argues that the state is still the preeminent political institution for addressing environmental problems. States remain the gatekeepers of the global order, and greening the state is a necessary step, Eckersley argues, toward greening domestic and international policy and law.

The Green State seeks to connect the moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement with contemporary theories about the state, democracy, and justice. Eckersley's proposed "critical political ecology" expands the boundaries of the moral community to include the natural environment in which the human community is embedded. This is the first book to make the vision of a "good" green state explicit, to explore the obstacles to its achievement, and to suggest practical constitutional and multilateral arrangements that could help transform the liberal democratic state into a postliberal green democratic state. Rethinking the state in light of the principlesof ecological democracy ultimately casts it in a new role: that of an ecological steward and facilitator of transboundary democracy rather than a selfish actor jealously protecting its territory.