American National Security

The necessity of continually reappraising strategy in shifting international and domestic environments makes it essential that policymakers and the attentive public alike have a clear understanding of the fundamental policy and process challenges that confront the nation. The authors of this sixth edition have provided a timely and valuable contribution toward gaining that understanding. -- James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, from the foreword

Presents an account of the significant changes in national security policy. This work offers an examination of the international environment and factors affecting US national security policy making.The sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into account the significant changes in national security policy in the past decade. Thorough revisions reflect a new strategic context and the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the early twenty-first century. Highlights include: * An examination of the current international environment and new factors affecting U.S. national security policy making* A discussion of the Department of Homeland Security and changes in the intelligence community* A survey of intelligence and national security, with special focus on security needs post-9/11* A review of economic security, diplomacy, terrorism, conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, military intervention, and nuclear deterrence in the changed international setting* An update of security issues in East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean* New material on globalization, transnational actors, and human security Previous editions have been widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses.