Highlighting the changing nature of conflict, this book examines the menace of global terrorism in terms of how nations have responded to the growing threat. Issues considered include how a small group of terrorists can force disproportionately large deployments and how nations hover between retaliatory insufficiency and retaliatory overkill. The argument is presented that the terrorist attacks on 9-11 may have been premature acts that were intended to take place after 2004 and the planned pan-Islamic consolidation in central Asia, a consolidation that would have curtailed the retaliatory possibilities of the United States. This landmark study offers a fresh perspective on how global terrorism will impact the world community and innovative suggestions for redefining terrorism in a framework that will be more successful in mobilizing the international community.

This book analyses some of the burning global issues of the day. the presentations in the current book inclides; A critique of the military dimension of South Asian security in China, Tibet, India. Preventing a repeat of Iraq in Ira; a resurgence of Russia in the 21st century, the futility of national missile defences and the demographic dynamic of the 21st century.

Departing from conventional thinking on the subject, the author presents a blueprint for the resurgence of Pakistan from a terrorism sponsoring state to a dynamic and responsible member of the comity of nations. He demonstrates that "fundamentalism" has a limited life span and goes on to say that if fundamentalism is not given up it will self-destruct the polity that adheres to it. The new global currents linked to the spread of knowledge, thanks to the information revolution, should take care of that, according to the author who has dealt with several other issues ranging from the nuclear issue to the interplay of global forces in South and Central Asia.