Contents -- Introduction to the First Edition -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 8. 11 September and the New American Century -- The impact of 11 September -- The Republican security agenda at the turn of the century -- The early months of the Bush administration -- A transatlantic divide -- The response to 11 September -- The view from the majority world -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- Aberfan disaster 88 -- Able Archer 32 -- Acapulco 78 -- Acid rain -- 88 -- 94 -- Action Directe 109 -- Adams, Nassau A. -- 159 -- 164 -- 166 -- Aden 79 -- Afghanistan -- 4 -- 31 -- 35 -- 47 -- 65 -- 79 -- 118 -- 142-7 -- 165 -- Soviet intervention 39 -- Aflatoxin 105-8 -- Africa -- 34 -- 67 -- 70 -- 79 -- 80 -- 82. 85 -- 89 -- 91 -- 93 -- 96 -- 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 -- Aktyubinch 4 -- Al Hakam 105 -- Al Hussein missile 71 -- Al Jubayl missile attack 72 -- Al Salman 105 -- Al-Qaida -- 143-7 -- 149 -- 165 -- Alaska 91 -- Algeria -- 84 -- 98 -- 110 -- Algerian civil war 87 -- Algiers 110 -- Anatolia 89 -- Anderson, Sean 162 -- 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. -- 151 -- 154-6 -- Arms control 119-20 -- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency -- 43 -- 155 -- Army Staff College [UK] 140 -- Army Tactical Missile System [ATACMS] -- 68 -- 158 -- Arrow missile 72 -- Asia -- 34 -- 67 -- 71 -- 80 -- 82 -- Aspergillus 105 -- Aspin, Representative Les -- 42 -- 154 -- Assassination of President Kennedy 39 -- Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries 160 -- Asylum seekers 4 -- Asymmetric warfare -- 10 -- 108-18 -- Atkins, Ralph 163 -- Atmospheric pollution 88 -- Aum Shinrikyo 111 -- Australasia 86 -- Australia -- 96 -- 135 -- Austria 96 -- Azores 5 -- 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 -- 152 -- Baltic Exchange bomb -- 113 -- 162-3 -- Bangkok 2 -- Bangladesh -- 1 -- 89 -- Bank of Ceylon 110 -- Bar Lev Line 30 -- Barksdale Air Force Base -- 5 -- 63 -- Barnett, Roger W. -- 61 -- 157 -- Barnsley 85 -- Baruch Plan 13 -- Basra 5 -- Bay of Biscay 7 -- Baylis, John 166 -- Beersheba 31 -- Behrens III, William H. 161 -- Beinke, Walter 152 -- Beirut -- 109 -- 111 -- Beirut bombing 115 -- Belgium 23 -- Bello, Walden 165 -- Belorus -- 36 -- 40 -- Bender Bryan 157 -- Berlin 13 -- Bess, Georges 109 -- Binnendijk, Hans 156 -- Biogeochemical cycles 94 -- Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [BTWC] -- 36 -- 120 -- 140 -- Biological weapons -- 36 -- 44 -- 76 -- 103-8 -- 132 -- Biotechnology and biological weapons 36 -- Bishkek 145 -- Bishopsgate bomb 113 -- Black Brant XII research rocket 32-3 -- Black Sea -- 31 -- nuclear contamination 27 -- Blair, Bruce G. 153 -- Blechman, Barry M. 155 -- 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 166 -- Bordeaux, John 157 -- Borneo confrontation 31 -- Bosnia -- 65 -- 116 -- Botulinum 105-8 -- Brahmaputra river -- 89 -- 93 -- Brandt Report 10 -- Brazil -- 3 -- 36 -- 40 -- 86 -- Breemer, Jan S. 152 -- Bretton Woods Project 166 -- Brezhnev, Leonid 31-2 -- Brigate Rosse 109 -- Britain -- 7 -- 12 -- 40 -- 44 -- 56-7 -- 69-70 -- 80 -- 83-4 -- 110 -- 113-15 -- 126-8 -- British American Security Information Council [BASIC] 155 -- British Army -- 66 -- 68 -- British nuclear developments 48-51 -- British nuclear forces -- 14 -- 24 -- 128 -- Brook-Shepherd, Gordon 153 -- Brooks, Edwin 80 -- Brown Brothers banking house 67 -- Bruntland Report 10 -- Buccaneer strike aircraft 49 -- Buenos Aires 109 -- Bulkeley, Rip -- 152 -- 157 -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 166 -- Burden-sharing 69-70 -- Bush administration -- 41 -- 139-42 -- Bush, President George W. [Jnr] -- 136 -- 139-42 -- 149 -- Bush, President George [Snr] 58 -- Butler, General Smedley E. 66-7 -- B[-1] strategic bomber 63 -- B[-2] bomber 46 -- B[-2] strategic bomber 75 -- B[-47] bomber 26 -- B[-52] strategic bomber -- 5 -- 26 -- 63 -- B[61-11] nuclear bomb 45 -- Campbell, Duncan 161 -- Canada -- 52 -- 78 -- 96 -- 130 -- Canan, James W. 157 -- Canary Wharf -- 113 -- 115 -- Cape Town 2 -- Capital account liberalisation 122 -- Caribbean -- 59 -- 69 -- Carouso, J. T. 145 -- Carson, Rachel 88 -- Carter administration 42 -- Carter, President 137 -- Carus, W. Seth 156 -- Caspian Basin oil -- 60 -- 91 -- Catalytic metals and resource conflict 96 -- Catholic Institue for International Relations 164 -- Caucasus -- 60 -- 69 -- 91 -- Cavanagh, John -- 14 -- 85 -- Central America -- 35 -- 67 -- 96 -- Central Asia -- 60 -- 69 -- 145 -- Central Command [CENTCOM] 65 -- Central Europe 67.

Central Intelligence Agency -- 13 -- 58 -- Chalmers, Malcolm 151 -- Chanjiang [Yangtze] river 93 -- Charles, Dan 152 -- Chechen War 47 -- Chechnya 11 -- Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser 73 -- Chemical weapons -- 36 -- 44 -- 76 -- 103 -- Chemical Weapons Convention 120 -- Cheney, Vice-President Dick 140 -- Cheyenne 27 -- Chiapas 78-9 -- Chicago 117 -- Chile 84 -- China -- 20 -- 28-9 -- 40-1 -- 43-4 -- 56 -- 60 -- 72 -- 91 -- 101 -- 142 -- China and missile defence 53-4 -- Chinese nuclear policy 53-4 -- Chinese nuclear weapons 14 -- Chirac, President 51 -- Chlorflurocarbons 89 -- Christian Democrat Party 145 -- Claustridium botulinum 105 -- Claustridium perfringens 105 -- Climate change -- 92-4 -- 99 -- 119 -- 124 -- 127 -- 137 -- 142 -- Climate change and tropical rainfall 93 -- Climate change research 127 -- Clinton administration 42-4 -- Clinton, President -- 58 -- 138 -- Cluster munitions -- 37 -- 144 -- CNN 5 -- Coal 90 -- Cobalt -- 90 -- 96 -- Cobalt- 60 72 -- Cochran, Thomas B. 151 -- Cold War -- 8-9 -- 11-40 -- 57-9 -- 62 -- 65-9 -- 71 -- 76 -- 79 -- 81-2 -- 94 -- 100 -- 103 -- 131-8 -- 151 -- Cold War crises 28-32 -- Cold War military spending 34-5 -- Cole, USS 146 -- Colombo -- 109-10 -- 112 -- 132 -- 143 -- Commission on National Security in the [21]st Century 61 -- Committee on the Present Danger 137 -- 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 -- 137 -- Conetta, Carl 165 -- Conflict resolution 127-8 -- Congress [US] -- 43 -- 137 -- 149 -- Conservative Government in Britain 49 -- Coote, Belinda -- 160 -- 167 -- Copper 90 -- Corruption 164 -- Counter-insurgency -- 9 -- 67-9 -- Counter-terrorism 67-9 -- Cover smut of wheat 105-6.

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