American National Security

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ISBN-10:

080189154X

ISBN-13:

9780801891540

Edition: sixth edition
Released: Apr 01, 2009
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
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Description:

The sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into account the significant changes in national security policy in the past decade. Thorough revisions reflect a new strategic context and the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the early twenty-first century. Highlights include:

• An examination of the current international environment and new factors affecting U.S. national security policy making
• A discussion of the Department of Homeland Security and changes in the intelligence community
• A survey of intelligence and national security, with special focus on security needs post-9/11
• A review of economic security, diplomacy, terrorism, conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, military intervention, and nuclear deterrence in the changed international setting
• An update of security issues in East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean
• New material on globalization, transnational actors, and human security

Previous editions have been widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses.


























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