World security: Trends and challenges at centurys end/ by Michael T. Klare

Introduction --1. Theory, realism, and world security --2. Soviet-U.S relations: confrontation, cooperation, transformation? --3. The future of nuclear deterrence --4. Death and transfiguration: nuclear arms control in the 1980s and 1990s --5. The high frontier of outer space in the 1990s: star wars or spaceship earth? --6. From mutual containment to common security: Europe during and after the cold war --7. Nuclear proliferation in the 1980s and 1990s --8. Deadly convergence: the arms trade, nuclear/chemical/missile proliferations, and regional conflict in the 1990s --9. Militarized states in the third world --10. Ethnic and nationalist conflict --11. The terrorist discourage: signs, states, and systems of global political violence --12. Multilateral institutions and international security --13. Promoting human rights --14. Global debt and third world development --15. World hunger: a scarcity of food or a scarcity of democracy? --16. The environment and international security --17. Catastrophic climate change --18. A policy framework for world security.