Geopolitics

America's energy position, and that of the West in general, is vulnerable.

Many people have been instrumental in helping see this book through to completion.

Most books ongmate as essays of limited scope or as doctoral dissertations whose findings await a receptive audience.

The central problem of international politics in Southeast Asia since December 1978 has been the Vietnamese armed presence in Kampuchea.

This book explores elite perceptions of the external threats facing the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), drawing on Dr.

Since the end of the war in Vietnam and the withdrawal of the American presence there, a marked realignment of power has taken place in Southeast Asia.

This innovative volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding South Asia's precarious security.

This book undertakes a multifaceted examination of South American international relations, emphasising on the continent's new era of domestic and international politics and the implications of the evolving environment for the policies of the many actors participating in the region's politics.

The question of South Africa's future has become a paramount issue in global politics.

An erratic, aging North Korean leadership intent on dynastic succession and development of nuclear weapons is attracting a lot of attention in the Asia-Pacific Region -- an area of utmost importance to the United States.

Suggesting that events in Poland during 1980-1981 represent the tip of an iceberg, the contributors examine the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and its potential consequences for European security.

I thank Peter Duignan for suggesting that the book be done and The Hoover Institution on War, Peace, and Revolution for a grant that facilitated the early stages of research.

Showing how the development of space technology could affect the present system of deterrence, the authors consider the consequences for U.

Originally published in 1987.

This book is the outgrowth of a collaborative effort by a small group of national security analysts associated with the Institute forNational Strategic Studies of the National Defense University,government officials responsible for pondering defense and foreign policy issues, and academics with long experience in Middle Eastern affairs.

Reshaping Regional Relations summarizes the cause and consequences of changes in Asia-Pacific region.

Long divided by cultural, economic, and political differences, the Asia-Pacific region has little history of multilateral cooperation.

The bitter U.

This book provides some answers to the questions of how to pursue the build-down of the East-West military confrontation in Europe and of how to build up an enduring and effective security system for Europe.

In this book, the author draws upon his training in political science and experience as an energy consultant at Atlantis, Inc.

The expiration in 1982 of the Protocol of Port-of-Spain reheated a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that had been frozen since 1970, Almost at once, Venezuelan ultranationalists asserted the need to recover by force the Essequibo region of Guyana--two-thirds of that country--which Venezuela had long claimed.

As the Cold War draws to a close, new issues inevitably have begun to surface in U.

The interrelationships of the United States and Japan with Micronesia, a U.

The United Nations faced unprecedented opportunities and heightened expectations when the Cold War ended in 1990.

The 1980s have ushered in a new era for the U.

The reunification of Taiwan with China is one of the most important policy issues of our time.

The Third Indochina Conflict (1975-) is seen by some as the escalation of a local quarrel between Vietnam and Kampuchea; others attribute it to the attempts of external powers to advance their own interests by encouraging conflict among the various Indochinese states; most agree that it is a logical--but not inevitable--consequence of the First (1946-54) and Second (1959-75) Indochinese conflicts.

The purpose of this book is to examine the feasibility, evolution, and future of international linkages, such as environmental pacts and agreements, military alliances, the World Health Organization, the Strategic Arms Limitation treaties, and energy power pools.

The first two years of the Reagan administration saw a close correlation between improved unofficial relations between Washington and Taipei and a deterioration of strategic cooperation between Washington and Beijing.

Originally published in 1987.

A fundamental transformation is underway in the structure of the international political system, with changes in both the definition and the distribution of power in world politics.

This book assesses the evolution of the Soviet approach toward European security policy since the mid-1980s, as seen from the prism of assessments of and policy toward the Federal Republic of Germany, examining basic Soviet analyses of West Germany in the period prior to unification.

This book is concerned with the predicaments of Soviet power in east Asia.

This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific.

Originally published in 1989.

Any discussion of the security of Korea has implications for U.

This book focuses on the impact that emerging water problems in the Middle East will have on U.

Originally published in 1984.

Since the energy crisis of 1973, the political, economic, and strategic importance of the Persian Gulf to U.

Analyzing the economic, strategic, and cultural elements that shape the attraction--and the friction--between the Pacific and Atlantic communities, this book integrates European perspectives into a discussion that has traditionally been dominated by Asian and U.

The OPEC countries possess an estimated one-third of total world natural gas reserves, but they produce relatively small volumes of this clean, convenient, and flexible fuel, and much of what is produced is flared and wasted for lack of demand.

As the political and economic landscape in the Asian Pacific continues to shift, the United States must re-evaluate its strategy toward the region.

The Caribbean area projects an image-not entirely accurate-of instability, and it is within that context that the United States and Cuba, the region's chief protagonists, struggle.

This book emphasizes the vital links between international politics and strategy and provides a comprehensive analysis of strategic interests of the major international actors in the Middle East.

Well before events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe dramatized the rapidity with which a new political world is evolving and before the Gulf War sharpened the focus on the Middle East agenda, scholars and policymakers alike were searching for different concepts for addressing the intractable problems facing the Middle East.

This up-to-date analysis of the major political issues associated with the Indian Ocean region examines recent developments in South Asia, the Gulf, and Africa and their effect on Indian Ocean security matters and politics.

The Gulf Cooperation Council represents both a model of development and unity in the Arab world and a working example of interstate cooperation to other nations.

This book provides an extensive military and strategic analysis of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, assessing the regional military balance, the internal security and stability of each Gulf nation, the evolution of each nation's forces from 1969 into 1983, and the impact of defense spending and Western and Soviet-bloc arms sales in the region.

South Africa is the dominant force in an area that is of increasing strategic importance to the West, yet few studies address the geopolitical pressures that dictate the course of events there.

How can the industrialized countries reduce their vulnerability to supply disruptions caused by continued dependence on foreign sources of oil?