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Synopsis
At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the pre-Cold War period will in the 21st century again become normative.
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Defense consultant Cimbala (political science, Pennsylvania State U.) argues that the future of European security will not completely escape the heritage of the Cold war and recent decisions by the great powers, especially the Americans and Russians. The power and policy vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union will shift the fulcrum of conflict eastward, he says, but old and unresolved security issues are taking shape in the dust even as it settles. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)