Global instability and strategic crisis /
by Brown, Neville.
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BookSeries: Routledge advances in international relations and politics ; 26. Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 041530413X (Hardback).Subject(s): Ballistic missile defenses | Strategy | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 | World politics -- 21st century | Defence planning | Military strategy | Missile defence | Overseas item | Political stability | Power (International relations) | TerrorismOnline resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Publisher description | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine derived contents note: Global Instability and Strategic Revision -- Preface -- The Author -- The Strategic Revolution -- 1. Through 11 September -- (a) A Revolution Unfolds, 1985-2001 -- (b) Explosive Excision -- 2. The Poverty of Strategy -- 3. A War on Terror? -- 4. Saddam, Slow Decline and Rapid Fall -- Limited World War? -- 5. Social Instability -- (a) Upheavals Within? -- (b) Ultimate Limits to Growth -- (c) The Zen Zone -- 6. Macabre Lethality -- (a) Lethal Gases and Toxins -- (b) Martial Microbes -- (c) Fissile Ambiguity -- (d) Undercover Nuclear Attack -- 7. The Ascent of the Missile -- Defense Against Missiles -- 8. Ballistic Encounter -- (a) A Checkered Progression -- (b) Rigor, the First Victim? -- 9. Terrestrial Coverage -- (a) Defense from the Surface -- (b) The AirBorne Laser -- 10. The Heavens Subverted? -- (a) Celestial Awareness -- (b) Global Engagement -- (c) Information through Space -- The Quest for Strategy -- 11. Pax Atlantica -- 12. Arms in Moderation -- 13. Planetary Internationalism -- 14. Strategy Transcended -- (a) Open Conspiracy? -- (b) Celestial Encounter -- Appendix A Geodesy and Geophysics -- Appendix B Exotic Technologies.
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