Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Violent Peace -- Closing the castle gates -- What a difference a day makes -- Keeping the violent peace the Secret Squirrels -- Winning or losing control -- Notes -- 2. Learning from the Cold War -- Origins and early development of the nuclear arms race -- The nuclear arms race - acceleration or control? -- Table 1: Superpower Nuclear Stockpiles -- Strategic nuclear postures and war- fighting -- Tactical nuclear weapons and first use -- Nuclear accidents -- The experience of Cold War crises -- A crisis out of nowhere -- Resourcing the Cold War -- Proxy wars -- Proliferation of weapons -- Lessons to learn -- Notes -- 3. Nuclear Futures -- Trends in the 1990s -- US nuclear developments -- The future US nuclear posture -- The Russian nuclear programme -- Britain, France and NATO -- Chinese nuclear policy -- Proliferation -- Nuclear futures -- Notes -- 4. Taming the Jungle -- A jungle full of snakes - the military view of a disorderly world -- Air power anywhere -- Sea power -- Special operations, counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism -- NATO and European allies -- Missile defences and the control of space -- Keeping the violent peace -- Notes -- 5. The New Security Paradigm -- A local rebellion in a global context -- The wealth-poverty divide -- Roots of the divide -- The widening of the rich-poor divide -- Revolts from the margins -- Environmental limits to growth -- The resource shift and resource conflict -- Climate change -- Uncertainties and insecurity -- Forms of conflict -- Revolt of the middle kingdoms -- Notes -- 6. Losing Control -- The Iraqi biological weapons programme and its implications -- Political violence and asymmetric warfare -- Colombo, Paris and Tokyo -- The World Trade Center bomb -- The Provisional IRA campaign of economic targeting -- The Khobar Towers bombing.

Business - and thinking - as usual -- Notes -- 7. Shifting the Paradigm -- Arms control -- Closing the wealth-poverty divide -- Responding to environmental constraints -- Timescales and progression -- Policies for a middle power -- International responses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- Aberfan disaster 88 -- Able Archer 32 -- Acapulco 78 -- Acid rain -- 88 -- 94 -- Action Directe 109 -- Adams, Nassau A. -- 140 -- 145 -- 147 -- Aden 79 -- Afghanistan -- 4 -- 31 -- 35 -- 47 -- 65 -- 79 -- 118 -- Soviet intervention 39 -- Aflatoxin 105-8 -- Africa -- 34 -- 67 -- 70 -- 79 -- 80 -- 82. 85 -- Agenda for Peace -- 124 -- 128 -- Agricultural development 127 -- Air Combat Command 63 -- Air Expeditionary Wing 64 -- Air Force magazine 63 -- Air France A 110 -- Air-launched cruise missile -- 5-8 -- 63-4 -- Airborne Laser [ABL] 73-6 -- Aktyubinsk 4 -- Al Hakam 105 -- Al Hussein missile 71 -- Al Jubayl missile attack 72 -- Al Salman 105 -- Alaska 91 -- Algeria -- 84 -- 98 -- 110 -- Algerian civil war 87 -- Algiers 110 -- Anatolia 89 -- Anderson, Sean 143 -- Andropov, Yuri 32 -- Angola 90-1 -- Antarctica 89 -- Anthrax -- 104-8 -- 117 -- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [ABM] -- 21 -- 42-3 -- 54 -- 56 -- 120 -- 128 -- Anti-elite rebellions 98 -- Anti-nuclear campaigners 25 -- Anti-personnel landmines -- 36 -- 120 -- Apter, David E. 142 -- Aral Sea 90 -- Area-impact munitions -- 36 -- 120 -- Argentina -- 28 -- 36 -- 40 -- Ariana airline 4 -- Arkin, William M. -- 132 -- 135-7 -- Arms control 119-20 -- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency -- 43 -- 136 -- Army Staff College [UK] 140 -- Army Tactical Missile System [ATACMS] -- 68 -- 139 -- Arrow missile 72 -- Asia -- 34 -- 67 -- 71 -- 80 -- 82 -- Aspergillus 105.

Aspin, Representative Les -- 42 -- 135 -- Assassination of President Kennedy 39 -- Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries 141 -- Asylum seekers 4 -- Asymmetric warfare -- 10 -- 108-18 -- Atkins, Ralph 144 -- Atmospheric pollution 88 -- Aum Shinrikyo 111 -- Australasia 86 -- Australia 96 -- Austria 96 -- Azores 5 -- B-1 strategic bomber 63 -- B-2 bomber 46 -- 76 -- B-47 bomber 26 -- B-52 strategic bomber 5 -- 26 -- 63 -- B-61-11 nuclear bomb 45 -- Ba'ath Party [Iraq] 103 -- Baader-Meinhof Gang 109 -- Bacillus anthracis 105 -- Baghdad -- 103 -- 107 -- 117 -- Bahrain 5 -- Balkans -- 36 -- 59 -- Ball, Desmond -- 19-20 -- 133 -- Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation 71 -- Baltic Exchange bomb -- 113 -- 143-4 -- Bangkok 2 -- Bangladesh -- 1 -- 89 -- Bank of Ceylon 110 -- Bar Lev Line 30 -- Barksdale Air Force Base -- 5 -- 63 -- Barnett, Roger W. -- 61 -- 138 -- Barnsley 85 -- Baruch Plan 13 -- Basra 5 -- Bay of Biscay 7 -- Baylis, John 146 -- Beersheba 31 -- Behrens III, William H. 142 -- Beinke, Walter 133 -- Beirut -- 109 -- 111 -- Beirut bombing 115 -- Belarus -- 36 -- 40 -- Belgium 23 -- Bender, Bryan 138 -- Berlin 13 -- Bess, Georges 109 -- Binnendijk, Hans 137 -- Biogeochemical cycles 94 -- Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [BTWC] -- 36 -- 120 -- Biological weapons -- 36 -- 44 -- 76 -- 103-8 -- Biotechnology and biological weapons 36 -- Bishopsgate bomb 113 -- Black Brant XII research rocket 32-3 -- Black Sea -- 31 -- nuclear contamination 27 -- Blair, Bruce G. 134 -- Blechman, Barry M. 136 -- Blue Streak missile 14 -- Body bag syndrome 67 -- Boeing Company -- 6 -- 73 -- Bolivia 84 -- Bologna 109 -- Bomber road map 138 -- Boost-phase interception 73-6 -- Booth, Ken 146 -- Bordeaux, John 138 -- Borneo confrontation 31 -- Bosnia -- 65 -- 116 -- Botulinum 105-8 -- Brahmaputra river -- 89 -- 93 -- Brandt Report 10 -- Brazil -- 3.

36 -- 40 -- 86 -- Breemer, Jan S. 133 -- Bretton Woods Project 145 -- Brezhnev, Leonid 31-2 -- Brigate Rosse 109 -- Britain -- 7 -- 12 -- 40 -- 44 -- 56-7 -- 69-70 -- British American Security Information Council [BASIC] 136 -- British Army -- 66 -- 68 -- British nuclear developments 48-51 -- British nuclear forces -- 14 -- 24 -- 128 -- Brook-Shepherd, Gordon 134 -- Brooks, Edwin 80 -- Brown Brothers banking house 67 -- Bruntland Report 10 -- Buccaneer strike aircraft 49 -- Buenos Aires 109 -- Bulkeley, Rip -- 133 -- 139 -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 146 -- Burden-sharing 69-70 -- Bush administration 41 -- Bush, President 58 -- Butler, General Smedley E. 66-7 -- Campbell, Duncan 142 -- Canada -- 52 -- 78 -- 96 -- 130 -- Canan, James W. 138 -- Canary Wharf -- 113 -- 115 -- Cape Town 2 -- Capital account liberalisation 122 -- Caribbean -- 59 -- 69 -- Carson, Rachel 88 -- Carter administration 42 -- Carus, W. Seth 137 -- Caspian Basin oil -- 60 -- 91 -- Catalytic metals and resource conflict 96 -- Catholic Institute for International Relations 145 -- Caucasus -- 60 -- 69 -- 91 -- Cavanagh, John -- 14 -- 85 -- Central America -- 35 -- 67 -- 96 -- Central Asia -- 60 -- 69 -- Central Command [CENTCOM] 65 -- Central Europe 67 -- Central Intelligence Agency -- 13 -- 58 -- Chalmers, Malcolm 132 -- Chanjiang [Yangtze] river 93 -- Charles, Dan 133 -- Chechen War 47 -- Chechnya 11 -- Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser 73 -- Chemical weapons -- 36 -- 44 -- 76 -- 103 -- Chemical Weapons Convention 120 -- Cheyenne 27 -- Chiapas 78-9 -- Chicago 117 -- Chile 84 -- China -- 20 -- 28-9 -- 40-1 -- 43-4 -- 56 -- 60 -- China and missile defence 53-4 -- Chinese nuclear policy 53-4 -- Chinese nuclear weapons 14 -- Chirac, President 51 -- Chlorflurocarbons 89 -- Christian Democrat Party 145 -- Climate change -- 92-4 -- 99 -- 119 -- 124 -- 127.

Climate change and tropical rainfall 93 -- Climate change research 127 -- Clinton administration 42-4 -- Clinton, President 58 -- Clostridium botulinum 105 -- Clostridium perfringens 105 -- Cluster munitions 37 -- CNN 5 -- Coal 90 -- Cobalt -- 90 -- 96 -- Cobalt- 60 72 -- Cochran, Thomas B. 132 -- Cold War -- 8-9 -- 11-40 -- 57-9 -- 62 -- 65-9 -- Cold War crises 28-32 -- Cold War military spending 34-5 -- Colombo -- 109-10 -- 112 -- 143 -- Commission on National Security in the 21st Century 61 -- Commodity agreements 83 -- Commodity production and terms of trade 82-3 -- Commonwealth 126 -- Commonwealth of Independent States -- 11 -- 47 -- Compensatory finance 83 -- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [CTBT] -- 40 -- 44 -- 51 -- 56 -- 99 -- 120 -- 128 -- Conflict resolution 127-8 -- Congress [US] 43 -- Conservative Government in Britain 49 -- Coote, Belinda -- 141 -- 147 -- Copper 90 -- Corruption 145 -- Counter-insurgency -- 9 -- 67-9 -- Counter-terrorism 67-9 -- Cover smut of wheat 105-6 -- Crisis instability 37 -- Crosette, Barbara 143 -- Cruise missiles -- 9 -- 58 -- 66 -- 75-6 -- 132 -- in Europe 28 -- in Europe 28 -- in Europe 31 -- in Europe 31 -- Cuba 67-8 -- Cuba missile crisis -- 29-30 -- 39 -- 94 -- Curle, Adam 147 -- Currency speculation 122 -- Cyprus 79 -- Dairen 29 -- Dando, Malcolm -- 133-5 -- 137 -- 142-3 -- 145 -- Dar es Salaam embassy bombing -- 60 -- 116 -- 118 -- de Briganti, Giovanni 137 -- Deane, Michael J. 133 -- Debt crisis 81-4 -- Debt relief 121-2 -- DefCon [Defence Condition] status 31 -- Defense Intelligence Agency 138 -- Defense News 117 -- Degregori, Carlos Ivan 142 -- Delhi 2 -- Delta-III nuclear submarine 48 -- DePalma, Anthony 141 -- Department for International Development [UK] 128 -- Department for Trade and Industry [UK] -- 126 -- 128 -- Department of Defense [US] 42-3 -- Department of Energy [US] -- 43 -- 136.

Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions [UK] 128.