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Post-Cold War Predictions examines how the international order evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union by focusing on the ways we study and understand major powers' security behavior within the evolving multipolar order. Kassab summarizes and evaluates influential Post-Cold War texts to better understand scholarship's need to predict.

"Post-Cold War Predictions examines how the international order evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union (and before the attacks on 9/11) by focusing on the ways we study and understand major powers' security behavior within the evolving multipolar order. Beginning with an overview of Post-Cold War literature, Kassab summarizes and evaluates influential Post-Cold War texts to better understand scholarship's need to predict. First, he discusses the central importance of power in international relations and drives home the central focus of international structures, linking findings to the broader structure-agent problem. He then reinterprets the purpose of theory, preferring explanatory theories to those that aim to predict outcomes. To understand the context by which political ideas were developed and followed as if they were political ideologies, Hanna Samir Kassab makes explicit the links historicism with historiography, forwarding a new methodology for studying political science: politicist analysis. Using simple jargon and defining terms where necessary, this succinct and enlightening text is required reading for all those interested in in international politics"--

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- About the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Security in a Post-Cold War Context -- 2 Security in the 1990s: New Zealand's Approach -- 3 The Future of War -- 4 The Role of Military Force in International Security -- 5 UN Peacekeeping and the Use of Force: No Escape from Hard Decisions -- 6 Whose Security? Re-imagining Post-Cold War Peacekeeping from a Feminist Perspective -- 7 Fighting for Survival: Environmental Decline, Social Conflict, and the New Age of Insecurity -- 8 Geoeconomics in American Foreign Policy -- 9 Achieving Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation and Non-Possession: Problems and Prospects -- 10 Nato Expansion and the Russian Question -- 11 Defence by Other Means: Australia's Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy -- 12 Korea and East Asian Security into the 21st Century -- 13 Moving Toward a More Secure Asia-Pacific: A Chinese View -- 14 Asia-Pacific Security: A New Zealand Viewpoint -- 15 Reflections on Security -- Index.

Relations between the US and Russia in the post-Cold War era are examined, focusing on the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The US has a large military presence, particularly in the Ukraine and Georgia, and has played and continues to play a role in Russian affairs via the US European Command. Adapted from the source document.

"Official development assistance (ODA), direct investment in Southeast Asia, participation in the Cambodian peace process, peacekeeping operations (PKO), the founding of APEC and other large-scale regional frameworks, the response to the Asian economic crisis, grappling with the "history" problem, trilateral summits: these have all been important milestones for postwar Japan--and especially for post-Cold-War Japan--in its efforts to rediscover Asia and Japan's place in it. Tanaka Akihiko traces the role of diplomacy in redefining the role of Japan in Asia from the 1977 Fukuda Doctrine of "heart-to-heart contact" between Japan and its Southeast Asian neighbors to the Abe administration's negotiations to settle the comfort woman issue with South Korea at the end of 2015. But he also looks at the transformation that Asia itself underwent during that period. The Cold War in Asia was not a simple bipolar confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies. The situation there was complicated by the presence of China, the importance of nationalism for countries that had once been colonies, and the need to escape third-world status and become economically developed. Asia during the Cold War, especially East Asia, was a divided region; few countries had normal international relations with China. But in the late 20th century, Asia underwent three structural changes--the end of the Cold War, globalization, and democratization. The result has been dynamic growth in tandem with deepening economic interdependence and the development of a complex web of regional institutions among Asian countries. What has been Japan's role in this increasingly interconnected Asia? What has Japan achieved--or failed to achieve--in Asia? This book is a history of post-Cold-War international politics, the themes of which are crises, responses to crises, and institution-building to prevent crises before they happen, aimed to provide an overview of political trends in Asia and Japan's diplomatic response to them"

Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Section One: Regionalism and Contemporary World Politics -- 1. Global Hegemony and Regionalism-James MITTELMAN -- Section Two: European Regionalism -- 2. European Regionalism - Where is the European Union Heading?-Eberhard RHEIN -- 3. The 'Nordic Model of Regionalism'-Bjørn MØLLER -- 4. Subregionalism in South Eastern Europe-Sophia CLÉMENT -- 5. The OSCE and Regional Cooperation in Europe-Monika WOHLFELD -- Section Three: Global Regionalism -- 6. Regional Dynamics in the Mediterranean-Stephen C. CALLEYA -- 7. Towards the FTAA: Challenges, Limits and Possibilities of Inter-American Regionalism-Vilma E. PETRASH -- 8. The Caribbean Regional Integration: What Developments?-François TAGLIONI -- Closing Remarks Regional Dynamics in the Post-Cold War World-Stephen C. CALLEYA -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Provides a survey of the principal items on the agenda following the end of the Cold War, focusing upon the institutions and regions where the reconsideration of security issues has been particularly profound. The book is organised into three main sections: the first examines the changed roles of the main security institutions which have survived the Cold War; NATO, the European Union/Western European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second analyses the Central European countries, Russia and States of the former Soviet Union in terms of their ideologies, p

Provides a survey of the principal items on the agenda following the end of the Cold War, focusing upon the institutions and regions where the reconsideration of security issues has been particularly profound. The book is organised into three main sections: the first examines the changed roles of the main security institutions which have survived the Cold War; NATO, the European Union/Western European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second analyses the Central European countries, Russia and States of the former Soviet Union in terms of their ideologies, political structures and relationships of the Cold War period. Lastly the text examines the northern and southern regions of Europe where quite different perspectives and agendas are concerned.

Social scientists concerned with processes of change within military organizations have begun to appropriate the language of postmodernism in order to describe a number of transformations observed in military forces cross-nationally since the end of the Cold War. Although the thesis of the "postmodern military" may have a novel appeal to scholars across a broad range of disciplines, this article argues that while substantial changes are indeed occurring in the armed forces of Western countries, there is at present little evidence to suggest that these changes are postmodern in nature. On the contrary, most of the developments in contemporary armed forces being described as such are actually modern in character-emerging as the result of rational, purposeful adaptation to environmental contingencies. We argue that the intellectual discourse of postmodernism is useful for military sociology only to the extent that scholars are able to apply discrete strands of postmodern social theory to predict or explain processes of change. The article examines the utility of three such strands: post-industrialism, post-Fordism, and globalization. Finally, alternative criteria, heretofore marginalized in the discussion of the postmodern military, are suggested as benchmarks to determine the degree to which the armed forces have indeed become postmodern.