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      Global Security and the War on Terror
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      Elite Power and the Illusion of Control

      Global Security and the War on Terror

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      Global Security and the War on Terror book

      Elite Power and the Illusion of Control
      ByPaul Rogers
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2007
      eBook Published 4 July 2007
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203089170
      Pages 240
      eBook ISBN 9780203089170
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Rogers, P. (2007). Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203089170

      ABSTRACT

      As the ‘War on Terror’ evolves into the ‘Long War’ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global environment, while paying little attention to the underlying issues that lead to insecurity. It is an approach that is manifestly failing, as the continuing problems in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrate.

      Moreover, ‘control’ implies the maintenance of a global order that focuses on power remaining in the hands of a transnational elite community, principally focused on North America and Western Europe, but extending worldwide. This elite largely ignores socio-economic divisions and environmental constraints, and sees continuing stability as being best achieved by the maintenance of the status quo, using force when necessary.

      This collection of essays by Professor Paul Rogers argues that this post-Cold War security paradigm is fundamentally misguided and unsustainable. It concludes with two new essays on the need for a new conception of global security rooted in justice and emancipation.

      Global Security and the War on Terror will be essential reading for students and scholars of security studies, the Cold War, international relations and development studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |6 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      Part I: Cold War and old war

      chapter |2 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Learning from the Cold War nuclear confrontation (1998)

      chapter 2|12 pages

      Alternative military options in Europe (1989)

      part |2 pages

      Part II: A jungle full of snakes

      chapter |2 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 3|14 pages

      Military force projection and the new world order (1992)

      chapter 4|8 pages

      Oil and US security (1992)

      chapter 5|14 pages

      Taming the jungle (2000)

      chapter 6|22 pages

      The new security paradigm (2000)

      part |2 pages

      Part III: Force and counterforce

      chapter |2 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Directed energy weapons and the control of rogue states (2001)

      chapter 8|25 pages

      Economic targeting and asymmetric warfare (2001)

      part |2 pages

      PART IV After 9/11

      chapter |2 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 9|18 pages

      11 September and the New American Century (2002)

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Iran: consequences of a war (2006)

      part |2 pages

      PART V An illusion of control

      chapter |2 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 11|13 pages

      The war on terror: the first five years

      chapter 12|6 pages

      The long war and the illusion of control

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