Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The United Nations' role in global security: Peace builder or peace enforcer? / Takashi Inoguchi
  • Changing states and the security problematique
  • Introduction / Atul Kohli, Georg Sorensen
  • A state is not a state: Types of statehood and patterns of conflict after the Cold War / Georg Sorensen
  • The United States as a great power / Sherle R. Schwenninger
  • Emerging powers: The cases of China, India, Iran, Iraq, and Israel / Amin Saikal
  • The problem of the failed state in Africa / Charles Abiodun Alao
  • Conclusion / Atul Kohli, Georg Sorensen
  • Transnational civil society actors and the quest for security
  • Introduction / Volker Rittberger, Christina Schrade, Daniela Schwarzer
  • Global civil society, social movement organizations, and the global politics of nuclear security / Jackie Smith
  • The dark side of global civil society: The role and impact of transnational criminal organizations as a threat to international security / Phil Williams
  • The relations of UN agencies and non-governmental organizations in cross-border humanitarian assistance / Roland Koch
  • Transnational networks of peacekeepers / Alex Morrison, Stephanie A. Blair
  • Regional institutions, the United Nations, and international security
  • Introduction / Muthiah Alagappa
  • Regional arrangements, the United Nations, and security in Africa / Margaret A. Vogt
  • Regional arrangements, the United Nations, and security in Asia / Shiro Harada, Akihiko Tanaka
  • Regional arrangements, the United Nations, and security in Latin America / Cristina Eguizabál
  • International Organizations in Peace and Security
  • Introduction / Michael W. Doyle
  • Arms control : the role of the IAEA and UNSCOM / Brahma Chellaney
  • The Security Council in the post-Cold War Era / David Malone
  • UN military operations in the 1990s : "lessons" from the recent past and directions for the near future / Thomas G. Weiss
  • UN preventive action / Connie Peck
  • Conclusion : international organizations, peace, and security / Michael W. Doyle
  • Conclusion: Three frameworks of peace and security in the next millenium / Takashi Inoguchi.