Inauspicious Beginnings : Principal Powers and International Security Institutions after the Cold War, 1989-1999.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (324 pages)
- Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies ; v.7 .
- Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Security Institutions after the Cold War -- 1 Contradictory or Complementary? Defensive Realism, Structural Liberalism, and American Policy towards International Security Institutions -- 2 Failing to Join the West: Russian Institutional Security Strategy during the Yeltsin Years -- 3 France: International Security Institutions as an Alternative to Power Politics -- 4 Becoming a "Normal" Actor in World Affairs: German Foreign Policy and International Security Institutions since Unification -- 5 Refusing to Play by the Rules? Japan's "Pacifist" Identity, Alliance Politics, and Security Institutions -- 6 The Institutional Security Policy Reorientation of China -- 7 Looking for New Voice Opportunities: Canada and International Security Institutions after the Cold War -- Conclusion: Minimalism and Self-interest: Comparing Principal-Power Performance in Security Institutions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- NAMES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- SUBJECTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Inauspicious Beginnings shows that at the end of the cold war many experts in the international community expected a new world order to emerge in which international security institutions - such as the United Nations Security Council and NATO - would play a major role in preventing and ending conflicts. But while the 1990s proved to be a decade of international insecurity and major humanitarian disasters, thus demonstrating the need for a wider and more efficient system of security institutions, the principal powers failed to create them. Instead, the emerging order was marked by the overwhelming power of the United States, which, under the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, did not see such a system as a necessity.
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Security, International. Balance of power. World politics-1989-. World politics-1995-2005. Securite internationale. Equilibre des puissances. Politique mondiale-1989-.