NON-MILITARY SECURITY AND GLOBAL ORDER : the impact of extremism, violence and chaos on national... and international security

The book examines the evolving nature of national and international security in the post-Cold War era, focusing on non-military threat potentials and how these may best be countered. Six specific issues are discussed: terrorism, the heroin and cocaine trade, piracy, environmental degradation, the spread of disease and uncontrolled migration. The book concludes that greater national coordination, inter-agency cooperation and international collaboration is needed if these problems are going to be dealt with effectively. "As the international system approaches the new millennium, it is the non-military, so-called 'soft' dimension of security that is increasingly at the forefront of national and international agendas. Globalization, unsustainable development, arms proliferation and heightened imperatives of economic and ethno-religious self-identity have all given increased salience to dangers as diverse as terrorism, the drug trade, piracy, environmental degradation, the spread of disease and uncontrolled migration. The book makes a comprehensive examination of each of these threat potentials, analysing those factors that underpin their growth and the complex way they interact with one another and impact on national and international security Examining the evolving nature of national and international security in the post-Cold War era, this work focuses on non-military threat potentials and how these may best be countered