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<em>Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security</em>

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Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security

International Security Reader, The MIT Press

March 1995

Editors: Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Editor, International Security; Series Editor, Belfer Center Studies in International Security, Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom

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ABSTRACT

The essays collected in Global Dangers provide both conceptual analysis and empirical assessment of the environment, migration, and nationalism as sources of conflict. The East-West confrontation that dominated the international security agenda during the Cold War has largely receded from view. Revealed in its wake is a different set of dangers, not really new but previously overshadowed by Cold War preoccupations. Global Dangers examines three such potential threats to peace: environmental problems, including access to scarce resources and population pressures; international migration; and nationalism. These issues are global in scope, persistent in nature, and potent in their implications. It is tragically clear that they can give rise to political dispute and to violent conflict.

 

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Full text of this publication is available at:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262620979

For Academic Citation:

Lynn-Jones, Sean M., and Steven E. Miller, eds. Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1995.

Document Length: 350 pp.

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