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Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic,
political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies
toward the developing world. Organized around particular themes and
issues, it pays attention to both theoretical fundamentals in
Soviet doctrine and to Soviet actions in specific regions. The
topics range widely and include: the Soviet conception of regional
security; Soviet arms transfers and military aid to the developing
world; the developing world in Soviet military thinking; the USSR
and crisis in the Caribbean; Soviet policy towards Southern Africa,
notably Angola and Mozambique; and Soviet policy towards Southwest
Africa. It looks at the activist foreign policy that Gorbachev
inherited, and explores the elements of change and continuity that
Gorbachev and the Soviets faced.
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. From Westphalia
through the 19th century, the state s claim to be the object of
security was sustainable because it offered its subjects some
measure of protection. The state s ability to provide security for
its citizens came under heavy strain in the 20th century as a
result of technological, strategic, and ideological innovations. By
the end of World War II, efforts to reclaim the security rights of
individuals gathered pace, as seen in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and a host of United Nations covenants and
conventions. MacFarlane and Khong highlight the UN s work in
promoting human security ideas since the 1940s, giving special
emphasis to its role in extending the notion of security to include
development, economic, environmental, and other issues in the
1990s."
In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts
things have both changed and remained the same - continuities and
changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this
volume - it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in
the former Soviet Union. The volume focuses on factors that have
contributed or may contribute to the resolution of the post-Soviet
conflicts, most of which have represented rather long and damaging
crises. In all conflict cases Moscow has been guided by Russian
state interests - some have been instigated or fueled, others
driven to a frozen state, and still a couple of others have been
constructively resolved due to Moscow's intervention. Russia has
used a long-term strategy for the resolution of those conflicts
that have taken place on its soil, but in regards to the conflicts
in other post-Soviet states, there is no long-term solution in
sight. As such, the conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and
Nagorniy Karabakh, remain unresolved involving not only the named
states, but Russia as well. They may represent localized national
or regional crisis impacting only the states involved, but for the
Russian Federation they epitomize one huge post-Soviet crisis with
no obvious end.
NATO's quickly evolving relationship with Central and Eastern
Europe is forming a new basis for security in the region.
Enlargement into the former-Soviet bloc, the conflict over Kosovo,
and developing foreign and domestic events are drastically changing
the technical aspects of security management, the perceptions of
security held by the region's countries, and the actual security
situation on the ground. Almost NATO broadly examines the region's
current security situation and specifically explores NATO's
relationship with Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine,
and the Baltic states all non-members, but each with its own
expectations for membership and relationship to the organization.
Russia's interaction with NATO since the end of the Cold War and
that country's crucial role in the region's future rounds out the
regional coverage. The book's connective tissue is a broader
concept of security that encompasses the European Union,
environmental concerns, minority issues, and economic and political
performance as Europe moves into the 21st century. The
interrelationship and significance of varied concepts of security
are summarized and further developed in the concluding chapter,
along with an effort to place developments in the region within a
more theoretical perspective. The result is a book of significant
breadth and substantial utility, one invaluable to readers trying
to understand the region and NATO's role in its security.
In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts
things have both changed and remained the same - continuities and
changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this
volume - it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in
the former Soviet Union. The volume focuses on factors that have
contributed or may contribute to the resolution of the post-Soviet
conflicts, most of which have represented rather long and damaging
crises. In all conflict cases Moscow has been guided by Russian
state interests - some have been instigated or fueled, others
driven to a frozen state, and still a couple of others have been
constructively resolved due to Moscow's intervention. Russia has
used a long-term strategy for the resolution of those conflicts
that have taken place on its soil, but in regards to the conflicts
in other post-Soviet states, there is no long-term solution in
sight. As such, the conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and
Nagorniy Karabakh, remain unresolved involving not only the named
states, but Russia as well. They may represent localized national
or regional crisis impacting only the states involved, but for the
Russian Federation they epitomize one huge post-Soviet crisis with
no obvious end.
The relationship between a powerful US and some of the central
multilateral organizations in global society is an essential
feature of contemporary international relations. This text brings
together a range of scholars to examine this crucial phenomenon.
Its aims are two-fold: to describe and explain US behaviour in and
towards a wide range of significant global and regional
institutions; and secondly, to examine the impact of US behaviour
on the capacity of each organization to meet its own objectives.
The study explores US behaviour and its consequences for
organizations based at the regional as well as the global levels,
for those located in different regions of the world, and for such
issue areas as security, economics, and the environment. Although
focusing on the period since the 1990s, each chapter places its
findings in a broader historical context.
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