Product Description: How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be secured...read more

Product Description: US Hegemony and International Organizations, written by a group of leading scholars from the US and around the world, examines the role of the United States in a variety of global and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank and IMF, the WTO, NATO, and the Organization of American States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the differences between them. It contests the notion that there is an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention in international politics, arguing that political interests remain essential to the practice of intervention...read more

Product Description: Security, Strategy, and the Global Economics of Defence Production features contributions from a broad range of policy analysts and practitioners in Canada and the United Kingdom whose primary concern is to identify and analyse the major challenges that Ottawa and London will be facing in the coming decade...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides a brief history of Western political and economic engagement in the region and addresses the issue of how such involvement shaped developments in the countries, in terms both of their internal politics, values, and orientations they assumed and also the extent to which it influenced their economic and security policymaking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines issues in multilateralism and regional security in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe.

Product Description: The contributors to this book set out to show that NATO's post-Cold War troubles are largely self-generated and almost exclusively "eastern". They focus in particular on the issue of what to do with the former Yugoslavia.

Product Description: This volume provides a systematic examination of the strategic, political and ideological criteria which together shape Soviet policies in the developing world. This book should be of interest to specialists in Soviet studies, strategic studies and defence.