The Strategic Logic of the Contemporary Security Dilemma - Couverture souple

Manwaring, Max G

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1249915465 ISBN 13 : 9781249915461

Editeur : Bibliogov, 2012

Synopsis

The reality and severity of the threats associated with contemporary transnational security problems indicate that the U.S. and its national and international partners need a new paradigm for the conduct of unconventional asymmetric conflict, and an accompanying new paradigm for strategic leader development. The strategic-level basis of these new paradigms is found in the fact that the global community is redefining security in terms of nothing less than a reconceptualization of sovereignty. In the past, sovereignty was the acknowledged and/or real control of territory and the people in it. Now, sovereignty is the responsibility of governments to protect peoples' well-being and prevent great harm to those peoples. Thus, the security dilemma becomes, "Why, when, and how to intervene to protect people and prevent egregious human suffering?" We address some of the strategic-level questions and recommendations that arise out of that debate. We probably generate more questions than answers, but it is time to begin the strategic-level discussion.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

From the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the end of World War Ii and beyond the Cold War period, the prevailing assumption was that interstate warfare would continue to be the dominant threat to global peace and prosperity. Today's wars, by contrast, are intrastate conflicts that take place mainly within-not across-national borders. As a consequence, the disease of intrastate conflict has been allowed to rage relatively unchecked across large areas of the world, and has devastated the lives of millions of human beings. At the same time, indirect and implicit unmet needs (e.g., poverty) lead people into greater and greater personal and collective insecurity. In the past, the traditional security dilemma was: What is defensive, and what is aggressive? This problem has never been sorted out. It depends entirely on one's interpretation-based on culture, values, external relationships, interests, and concepts of threat to national security.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bibliogov
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1249915465
• ISBN 13: 9781249915461
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 62
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible