Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and BeyondKen Booth In this book a group of influential and distinguished scholars analyse some of the key questions in contemporary international relations. The book is in three parts. In the first, the lessons and legacies of Cold War are examined, including debates about its rise and fall, and the implications of the superpower nuclear confrontation. Part II asks questions about powers and politics in the post-Cold War world: the USA's potential as a world leader, Russia's troubled future, Japan's potential power, the China syndrome, and Africa's problems. The final part looks further into the future, discussing international organisation, life politics, and the potentialities for human society under the conditions of globalisation. The book shows how different countries and different groups of countries are confronting urgent issues of statecraft in a period of radical global transformation. |
Contents
Cold War Lessons and Legacies | 29 |
Who is to blame for the Cold War? | 56 |
Nuclear lessons of the Cold War | 71 |
A Cold War life and beyond | 87 |
PostCold War Powers and Policies | 135 |
Can Russia escape its past? | 149 |
Imperialism dependency and autocolonialism in the Eurasian space | 164 |
Western Europe challenges of the postCold War era | 179 |
New China new Cold War? | 224 |
Africa crisis and challenge | 247 |
Of medium powers and middling roles | 270 |
Beyond resistances and reinventions | 289 |
Affluence poverty and the idea of a postscarcity society | 308 |
The future of the human past | 323 |
security within global transformation? | 338 |
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