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US National Security: New Threats, Old Realities

US National Security: New Threats, Old Realities

Viotti, Paul R.

Paperback

Series: Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1604979305
ISBN13: 9781604979305
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Sep 1 2016
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

We live in a world in which events and actors not conceived of as posing an imminent danger during most of the twentieth century are now directly threatening human security. Critical infrastructures --from electric power grids to nuclear power plants, from water distribution systems to banks and air traffic control systems--are vulnerable to cyber attacks by state and non-state actors. Climate change threatens to disrupt people's lives and livelihoods, escalating disputes over access to key resources. Global inequality of income and wealth is undermining living conditions, especially in densely populated parts of the world that are often breeding grounds for the viruses that precipitate pandemics. Telecommunications and transportation are creating fertile ground for transnational criminal networks that engage in illegal arms transfers, drug trade, prostitution, slave trade, and other illicit activities. Beyond these human security concerns is the ongoing challenge of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to other states and terrorists--and the previously unthinkable specter of the weaponization of space. In addition to these and other new threats are the old realities of state and non-state actors interacting in a still anarchic world that lacks any central authority over that exercised by sovereign states. In this increasingly globalized world, we still face inter-state wars and armed interventions, inter-communal strife that spills over national borders, and insurgencies or other movements and groups that resort to terrorism or other forms of political violence.

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