Contents

pp vii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-26

Part one - Cold War: lessons and legacies

pp 27-28

1 - Cold Wars of the mind

pp 29-55

2 - Who is to blame for the Cold War?

pp 56-70

3 - Nuclear lessons of the Cold War

pp 71-86

4 - A Cold War life, and beyond

pp 87-132

Part two - Post-Cold War: powers and policies

pp 133-134

5 - Can the United States lead the world?

pp 135-148

6 - Can Russia escape its past?

pp 149-163

7 - Imperialism, dependency and autocolonialism in the Eurasian space

pp 164-178

8 - Western Europe: challenges of the post-Cold War era

pp 179-193

9 - Europe and the wider world: the security challenge

pp 194-208

10 - A new Japan? A new history?

pp 209-223

11 - New China: new Cold War?

pp 224-246

12 - Africa: crisis and challenge

pp 247-269

13 - Of medium powers and middling roles

pp 270-286

Part three - Beyond: resistances and reinventions

pp 287-288

14 - International peace and security in the twenty-first century

pp 289-307

15 - Affluence, poverty and the idea of a post-scarcity society

pp 308-322

16 - The future of the human past

pp 323-337

Conclusion: security within global transformation?

pp 338-355

Index

pp 356-358