Karen_A._Mingst,_Ivan_M._Arregu_n-Toft]_Essentia

292 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife Just war is an evolving practice. Key con temporary debates surround the question of how newe ...

The Just War Tradition 293 tion technique and torture. The subject has been debated by U.S. presidential candi- dates in 2011 an ...

294 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife the dIffIcult trade- offs of drone Warfare Since the September  11, 2001 attacks on the World ...

The Just War Tradition 295 that most drones use in attacks have not been particularly discriminate. That is, targeted leaders of ...

296 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife occurring. As two UN officials put it, this “marks the coming of age of the imperative of act ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 297 with Iraq and the war on terrorism. In May 2012, a massacre in the Syrian vil ...

Global PersPectives dent in 1991, Crimea became an autonomous region within Ukraine— until the 2014 reversion to the Rus sian Fe ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 299 States countries. It also established relation­ ships with NATO and the Europ ...

300 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife permanent feature of interstate politics so long as anarchy persists. This formulation at lea ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 301 we observe in interstate politics. It can provide an effective guide to polic ...

302 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife Union maintained a relative balance of power. If one of the superpowers augmented its power t ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 303 dismemberment of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact alli ...

304 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife As logical as deterrence sounds, and as effective as it seemed during the Cold War— after all ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 305 strike because of improvements in U.S. nuclear capacity (including the abilit ...

306 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife by united action: all (or many) states will unite against the aggressor. Potential aggres- so ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 307 threat of another war with Germany seemed increasingly likely. In the post– W ...

308 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife power ful and straightforward: fewer weapons means greater security. Regulating arms prolifer ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 309 economic sanctions. In addition, signatories of the NPT that already possess ...

310 CHAPTER EigHT ■ War and Strife and biological weapons makes them difficult to detect, so it is hard to guarantee com- plianc ...

Contending Perspectives on Managing Insecurity 311 necessary defense reforms, increase defense expenditures, and modernize equip ...