Global security concerns: anticipating the twenty-first century

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Contents

DISCLAIMERii

PREFACE.vi

HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CHANGE: FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICTS AND WARS1

RELIGION-A BANNER FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONFLICT.19

NATIONAL FRAGMENTATION, ETHNICITY, AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER32

POPULATION PRESSURES, MIGRATION, AND REFUGEES.46

TRANSNATIONAL CRIME ITS EFFECT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL STABILITY.58

HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS70

ANTICIPATING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ECONOMIC SOURCES OF CONFLICTS82

THE THIRD WORLD’S NONVIABLE STATES A MAJOR SOURCE OF CONFLICT IN THE

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.96

WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT.111

TRANSNATIONAL AIR, WATER, AND LAND DEGRADATION PROBLEMS124

NUCLEAR CONFLICT AND NONPROLIFERATION ISSUES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST

CENTURY.134

THE OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL.145

CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS MAPPING WARFARE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.161

REGIONAL IMPACTS OF CIVIL WARS176

THREATS FROM THIRD WORLD REGIONAL HEGEMONS186

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.198

THE TRANSMILLENNIAL WORLD FROM AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE210