This study on resources and strategy aims to bridge the gap between past experience and current concerns, to place contemporary issues in historical perspective. The relationship between access to resources and Western security has been thrust to the forefront by the decade of the oil crisis and has been given additional impetus by the invasion of Afghanistan, the continuing war in the Persian Gulf, events in Southern Africa and the growth of the Soviet navy. The author shows that current thinking about the role of resources in war, and as a component of military potential in peacetime, relies to a significant extent on notions derived from historical experience and changes in the nature of warfare, not least the advent of nuclear weapons. This study is concerned primarily with perceptions of resource vulnerability and their influence on strategy, rather than the measurement of actual vulnerability, although the latter is explored where appropriate. The first part of the book looks at developments to 1945, and the second on resources and strategy in the nuclear age focusing on American policy and including interviews with individuals active in the current debate.

Resources and Strategy

Business & Money

Lesser, Ian O.

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

?The clash of civilizations? has become a common phrase in discussions of U.S.?Middle East relations. This book explores the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and Western states, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on both sides involving historical, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and strategic elements.Arg

A Sense Of Siege: The Geopolitics Of Islam And The West

Fuller, Graham

Reference

Routledge

A Sense Of Siege: The Geopolitics Of Islam And The West (Rand Study)

The clash of civilizations” has become a common phrase in discussions of U.S.Middle East relations. This book explores the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and Western states, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on both sides involving historical, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and strategic elements.Arguing that Islam versus the West” does not represent the arena of the next global ideological struggle, the authors examine specific issues of a bilateral nature that require careful handling to prevent the consolidation of states into opposing blocs. They discuss Islam's efforts to politically enhance the real power of Muslim states and to equalize relations with the West in the strategic arena; the enlarged role of Islam in the internal politics of Muslim countries; and the urgency of political, economic, and social change to break away from traditional authoritarian orders. A central theme of the book is that political Islam threatens the established order in most Muslim countries far more than it threatens the West and that violent confrontation can best be circumvented by integrating Islamist forces into the political process.

History

Middle East

Westview Press

"The clash of civilizations" has become a common phrase in discussions of U.S.-Middle East relations. This book explores the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and Western states, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on both sides involving historical, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and strategic elements. Arguing that "Islam versus the West" does not represent the arena of the next global ideological struggle, the authors examine specific issues of a bilateral nature that require careful handling to prevent the consolidation of states into opposing blocs. They discuss Islam's efforts to politically enhance the real power of Muslim states and to equalize relations with the West in the strategic arena; the enlarged role of Islam in the internal politics of Muslim countries; and the urgency of political, economic, and social change to break away from traditional authoritarian orders. A central theme of the book is that political Islam threatens the established order in most Muslim countries far more than it threatens the West and that violent confrontation can best be circumvented by integrating Islamist forces into the political process.

With the astonishing transformations in the geopolitics of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey has been profoundly affected by the changes on its periphery. For the first time since the beginning of the century, a Turkic world has blossomed, giving Turkey potential new foreign policy clout from the Balkans across the Caucasus and into Central Asia and Western China.These geopolitical opportunities have dramatically changed the character of Turkey itself, once an isolationist, Eurocentered NATO ally. At the same time, Turkey has undergone an internal evolution over the last decade, making it an attractive model of Middle Eastern development because of its increasingly free market, democratic governance, and secularist outlook.This book explores the character of the new Turkey, assessing its foreign policy options and interpreting the significance of those choices for the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Turkey's New Geopolitics: From The Balkans To Western China (A Rand Study)

Brown, J. F.

Brown, James F.

Henze, Paul

Within a decade, every southern European capital may be within range of ballistic missiles based across the Mediterranean Sea. The authors explore the proliferation trends, provide a country-by-country assessment of weapons capabilities, and discuss the implications for European security and U.S. and NATO policy.

Strategic Exposure: Proliferation Around the Mediterranean

Engineering & Transportation

Tellis, Ashley J.

Engineering

RAND Corporation

Traces the recent evolution of international terrorism against civilian and U.S. military targets, looks ahead to where terrorism is going, and assesses how it might be contained. The authors consider the threat of information-based terrorism and of weapons of mass destruction, with an emphasis on how changes in the sources and nature of terrorism may affect the use of unconventional terror. The authors propose counterterrorism strategies that address the growing problem of homeland defense.

Countering the New Terrorism

John Arquilla

David Ronfeldt

Brian Michael Jenkins

Bruce Hoffman

Michele Zanini

This study aims to show that current thinking about the role of resources in war, and as a component of military potential in peacetime, relies on notions derived from historical experience and changes in the nature of warfare, not least the advent of nuclear weapons.

Military

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Resources and Strategy

A Sense Of Siege: The Geopolitics Of Islam And The West

A Sense Of Siege: The Geopolitics Of Islam And The West (Rand Study)

A Sense Of Siege: The Geopolitics Of Islam And The West (Rand Study)

Turkey's New Geopolitics: From The Balkans To Western China (A Rand Study)

Strategic Exposure: Proliferation Around the Mediterranean

Countering the New Terrorism

Resources and Strategy