Table Of ContentCONTEMPORARY SECURITY
AND STRATEGY
Contemporary Security
and Strategy
Edited by Craig A. Snyder
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Contents
List of Figures viii
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations X
Notes on the Contributors xi
1 Contemporary Security and Strategy 1
Craig A. Snyder
2 The Evolution of Strategic Thought 13
J. Mohan Malik
3 Realism and Security Studies 53
Sean M. Lynn-Jones
4 Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking and the New Security
Studies 77
David Mutimer
5 Regional Security Structures 102
Craig A. Snyder
6 Rationality and Deterrence in Theory and Practice 120
Keith Krause
7 The Future of Nuclear Strategy 150
Andrew Butfoy
8 Nuclear Weapons Proliferation 171
Richard Gray
9 Developments in Modern Warfare 194
Craig A. Snyder and J. Mohan Malik
10 Re-imagining Warfare: The 'Revolution in Military Affairs' 210
Andrew Latham
Index 237
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List of Figures
6.1 The Prisoner's Dilemma 129
6.2 Chicken 130
6.3 Game Tree 134
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Preface
This book was born of the need to provide a contemporary reappraisal of
strategic studies. Apart from the necessity to take stock of the far-reaching
changes in the first post-Cold War decade, the contributors also sought to
broaden the focus of the study of security away from the purely military
aspect of strategic studies to include non-military issues of security. The
goal of the book is to orient students in the evolving conceptual terrain of
the renamed area of security studies. It offers a comprehensive, objective
treatment of security studies that integrates strategic thought, theories of
security, key issues and developments in post-Cold War security while
combining North American, British and Australian views of security.
I would like to thank all of the contributors to this volume for their
dedication to the project and for providing material that made the editing
process so enjoyable. I would especially like to thank my colleague here at
Deakin, Mohan Malik, for his contributions to this volume and for his help
and guidance during the early stages of the process. I would also like to
thank Joan Beaumont, Head of the School of Australian and International
Studies for her and the school's support for the project. Finally I would like
to thank our publisher Steven Kennedy and the anonymous reviewers for
their comments on the early draft of the manuscript, and especially Steven
for his patience when the delivery of the manuscript was delayed due to the
Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests of May 1998.
CRAIG A. SNYDER
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List of Abbreviations
ABMT Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
ANZUS Australia, New Zealand, United States Treaty
ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations
BMDs Ballistic missile defences
C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computing and
Intelligence
COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
EU European Union
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
LIC Low-intensity conflict
MAD Mutual assured destruction
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
RDT Rational deterrence theory
RMA Revolution in Military Affairs
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
START II Second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
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Notes on the Contributors
Andrew Butfoy is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of
Politics, Monash University. Dr Butfoy has been a Research Associate at the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a Lecturer at the
UK Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst); in addition he has tutored at the
London School of Economics and the Australian National University
(ANU). He has published a number of journal articles in Australia and
overseas. He is the author of Common Security and Strategic Reform: A Critical
Analysis (London: Macmillan, 1997; and New York: StMartin's Press, 1997).
Research interests include: the strategic implications of common/ coopera
tive security, the evolving political, strategic and conceptual framework for
arms control, and the role of nuclear weapons in international relations.
Richard Gray is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at the
University of Queensland. His thesis is a study of the post-Cold War
nuclear non-proliferation regime and the implications of changes to this
regime for international relations theory. His research interests include the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international relations theory
and international security. He has been published in the Australian Journal of
Political Science.
Keith Krause is Professor of International Politics at the Graduate Institute
of International Studies in Geneva. His published works include Arms and
the State (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and articles in International
Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of Inter
national Studies, Mershon Review of International Studies and International
Journal, as well as chapters in a dozen edited volumes. He is the co-editor
(with Michael C. Williams) of Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) and (with W. Andy Knight)
State, Society and the United Nations System: Changing Perspectives on Multi
latera/ism (Tokyo: United Nations University Press). His current research
concentrates on 'military development', state formation and insecurity in
the post-colonial Middle East, and is part of a broader project concerning
the reconceptualisation of security and security studies in the post-Cold
War world.
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