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Violent Conflict in the 21st Century:
Causes, Instruments, and
Mitigation
Edited by Charles Hermann, Harold K. Jacobson and Anne Moffat (Chicago: AAAS,
1999)
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Summary
Will key political events of the 21st century
blindside modern
experts? Will the most serious threats to society be anticipated or even
recognized by those who witnessed the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and
the collapse of the Soviet Union? To what degree is our experience with
deterrence, arms races and alliance structures relevant to current
destabilizing forces?
This collection of essays deals with these timely
questions. The
essays were prepared for a December 1997 conference of that name sponsored by
the Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies (MCISS), a program of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They probe how international
security studies must redefine its concerns in order to remain pertinent; for
example, how might illicit traffic in nuclear materials or catastrophic damage
to national infrastructure cause large-scale violence? Several papers extend
this analysis to study how violence may be mitigated using, for example, an
improved understanding of social identity and group loyalty or the creation of
a transboundary legal order.
The volume conveys cautionary but hopeful messages,
challenging
much of the dogma common among international security analysts in the 1990s.
Edited by Charles Hermann, Harold Jacobson, and Anne
S. Moffat and
published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Midwest Center,
Chicago, Illinois.
Contents:
Introduction
History of MCISS
Notes on the Contributors
The New Evils of the 21st Century
Robert D. Kaplan
The Vulnerability of the Networks That We Live By
Harvey Drucker
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Physical Heritage of the Cold War
W.K.H. Panofsky
Social Identity, Group Loyalty, and Intergroup
Conflict
Marilynn Brewer
Group Loyalty and Ethnic Violence
Donald L. Horowitz
International Relations in the Global Village
Kennette Benedict
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