Understanding global security - Peter Hough

MILITARY THREATS TO SECURITY FROM STATES
1 The other ten Security Council members are elected for two years, by General Assembly
vote subject to Security Council approval, on the basis of geographical quotas. Five are
chosen from Africa and Asia combined, two from Latin America, one from Eastern
Europe and two from ‘Western Europe/others’.
2 Russian pan-Slavism predates the Cold War and can be seen as a common theme of
Russian foreign policy dating back to the Czarist era of the nineteenth century when
support for Serb nationalism was demonstrated.
3 Reports suggest that NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark wanted British troops to
confront the Russians but was ignored by General Michael Jackson, leading the British
contingent (Tran 1999).
Notes
Recommended reading
Clark, I. (2001) The Post Cold War Order. The Spoils of Peace, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Clausewitz, C.V. (1976) On War, edited and translated by M. Howard and P. Paret, Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Fukuyama, F. (1992) The End of History and the Last Man, London: Hamish Hamilton.
Gaddis, J. (1997) We Now Know – Rethinking Cold War History, Oxford: Clarendon.
Halliday, F. (2001) The World at 2000. Perils and Promises, New York: Palgrave.
Huntington, S. (1993) ‘The Clash of the Civilizations?’, Foreign Affairs 72(3): 22–49.
Kegley, C. and Wittkopf, E. (1999) World Politics. Trend and Transformation, 7th edn, New
York: St Martin’s/Worth (Part IV).
Kennan, G. (‘X’) (1946) ‘The Sources of Soviet Conduct’, Foreign Affairs 25(4): 566–582.
Prins, G. (2002) The Heart of War. On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the Twenty-first Century,
London & New York: Routledge.
Rasmussen, M. (2001) ‘Reflexive Security: NATO and International Risk Society’, Millennium
Journal of International Studies 30(2): 285–309.
Russett, B. and Oneal, J. (2001) Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence and
International Organisations, New York: Norton.
Stern, G. (2000) The Structure of International Society, 2nd edn, London: Pinter (Chapter 13).
Walzer, M. (1978) Just and Unjust Wars, London: Allen Lane.
Wight, M. (1978) Edited by H. Bull and C. Holbraad, Power Politics, Leicester: Leicester
University Press.
Useful web links
White, M. (2001) ‘Wars of the Twentieth Century’, Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-list.htm
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI): http://www.sipri.se/
United Nations ‘Peace and Security’: http://www.un.org/peace/index.html
NATO: http://www.nato.int/
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