At a time when events are overtaking many publications, these articles selected from International Security provide up-to-date and comprehensive analyses of American national security strategy in the post–Cold War world.

Addressing future U.S. relations with its Cold War allies as well as with its former foes, contributions take up such major issues as overall strategic options, security in the new Europe, relations with the former Soviet Union, U.S.-Japan relations, and threats in the Third World, particularly proliferation.

Book by Steven E. Miller, Ashton B. Carter, and Owen Cote

Book by Ashton B. Carter, Kurt M. Campbell, Steven E. Miller, and Charles Zraket

The five Nordic countries have quite different security problems and geostrategic settings and have made very different choices about their security policy.

These essays from the journal International Security examine the effects of the nuclear revolution on the international system and the role nuclear threats have played in international crises.

Soviet military policy has been one of the most important and perplexing issues confronting the United States since 1945. Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy innovations have focused renewed attention on these vital questions.

These fourteen essays analyze several major areas of American conventional defense: the new administration's defense policy the state of the NATO Warsaw Pact conventional balance, the effectiveness of NATO's conventional strategy and problems associated with projecting military power in the Third World.

The essential structure of the modern U.S. defense establishment was created, amid great controversy, by the National Security Act of 1947.