Book review: MacDonald S.B. 2022. The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean: Economic Statecraft, China Strategic Realignments. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 310 р. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06149-3

Offense-defense theory offers an optimistic view of international politics based on the argument that war can be prevented if defense gains an advantage over offense. It also argues that an effective arms control can reduce the risk of arms races and war. The theory has been useful in foreign policy analysis and in international relations scholarship since it is used to explain theoretical and ...

To understand the causes of turbulence and disorder in the post– Cold War world it is necessary to examine sub-national and transnational forces as well as inter-state relations. The danger is that the consideration of new security challenges will encourage the fabrication of enemies or security threats. This, however, should not inhibit efforts to reassess the challenges to national and intern...

Since the end of the cold war and the downsizing of military budgets, it has been more important than ever that mission-critical systems be reliable, affordable, and capable of evolving to prevent obsolescence. Furthermore, as operational software systems play a more critical role in both military and non-military applications, the need for dependability in all software systems is increasing. I...

The idea of ballistic missile defense (BMD) is not new. It originally emerged in the early years of the Cold War as part of the overall strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The notion that ballistic missiles could be intercepted and destroyed in flight offered the prospect of a system of security based upon an “active defense” rather than the unnerving notion of...

This course intends to examine the developments in Europe and U. S. since 1919 until today. The new political structure after 1918 will be considered from the point of global developments. World involvement of the U. S. in Europe affairs, Cold War Sovietisation of Eastern Europe and the Third World countries are also to be discussed. The relations among the industrial and non-industrial politic...

war and conflicts within and among third world countries and between them and western countries, despite the end of the cold war, continues to produce fear and threat, violence, insecurity and instability. they are some of the most important causes of pain and misery of peoples, together with immense human, social, economic and developmental costs, with vast and durable consequences, in deepest...

The science policy of the United States federal government has undergone a series of changes in emphasis since the Second World War. Most of the debate about what federal science policy should be, has focused on two questions – what is the role of science and technology in national security and what is the role of science and technology in economic growth. This paper details the shift from mili...