In an impressive display of institutional agility and responsiveness, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, undertook in the weeks immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to produce a book that would outline a strategy for the American struggle against terrorism. A substantial and diversely expert team of CSIS researchers, headed by principal authors Kurt Campbell and Michele Flournoy, completed this thoughtful and comprehensive volume remarkably quickly. It stands both as a testament to the historic moment and as an analytical framework for understanding and assessing the efforts of the Bush administration to combat terrorism. Indeed, it provides a benchmark for comparing what has been done with what could and possibly should be done to fight terrorism.

A December 2002 report, published under the auspices of the Academy’s Committee on International Security Studies (CISS), finds that the political, military, and economic consequences of war with Iraq could be extremely costly to the United States. William D. Nordhaus (Yale University) estimates the economic costs of war with Iraq in scenarios that are both favorable and unfavorable to the United States. Steven E. Miller (Harvard University) considers a number of potentially disastrous military and strategic outcomes of war for the United States that have received scant public attention. Carl Kaysen (MIT), John D. Steinbruner (University of Maryland),and Martin B. Malin (American Academy) examine the broader national security strategy behind the move toward a preventive war against Iraq.

Well into the 1990s, American proponents of an expanded and accelerated missile defence programme suffered disappointments and defeats. Even when the Republicans gained control of Congress after their huge victory in the 1994 mid-term elections, their insistent efforts to force missile defence to the top of the defence-policy agenda were unsuccessful.

The field of international security came of age during the Cold War. Its growth was galvanized by the Soviet-American rivalry that emerged after World War II. The central preoccupation of security studies was the military dimension of that rivalry and above all the nuclear arms race at the heart of the competition. Although the field grew increasingly diverse over time, its core concerns (especially for so-called "mainstream" or "traditional" security studies) remained focused on the superpowers, their allies, their militaries, and their global competition. Indeed, to critics of traditional security studies, the field itself seems like an artifact of the Cold War.

What are we to make of the field now that the world has changed so suddenly and so stunningly? What does the end of the Cold War mean for a field that wassoheavily shaped by Cold War concerns? These are the broad questions that undergird this volume, a collection of diverse essays loosely linked by the theme of change.

Half of the book consists of offerings by critics of traditional security studi

This revised and expanded edition of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict contains essays from some of the world's leading analysts of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and internal war. The essays from the first edition have been updated and supplemented by analyses of recent conflicts and new research on the resolution of ethnic and civil wars.