Part I: International Dimensions -- 1. Introduction to the Politics of Defence Policy / Isaiah Wilson III and James J. F. Forest -- 2. The Changing Conception of Self-Defence / Aidan Hehir -- 3. The origins of "New" Security Constructions: Weapopns Proliferation and the Preventive War Option / Scott A. Silverstone -- 4. Democracy by Force / Alexandre Lambert -- 5. A Contested Threat: The Politics of Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism / Erica Chenoweth -- 6. The United Nations and Peace - Keeping / Donna Winslow -- 7. NATO and Collective Security in Europe / Rebecca J. Cruise -- 8. Ensuring Effective Use of Private Forces: Domestic, International and Transnational Regulatory Options in the Face of Changing Warfare / Olivia Allison And Martha Clark Dunigan -- 9. Nuclear Defence Policies in Political Retrospective / Julie Bentz -- 10. The use of New Media in the Modern Asymmetric Warfare Environment / Pierre Pahlavi -- Part II: Regional and Domestic Perspectives -- 11. The Politics of defence in Africa / Benedikt Franke -- 12. Defence Policymaking in Strategic Asia / Mercy Kuo and Michel Wills -- 13. Post-Cold War Security and Defence in "Old" and "New" Europe / Luca Ratti and Jeremy W. Lamoreaux -- 14. Latin American Defence Politics and Regional Security Co-operation / Fernando M. Lujan and Richard J. Kilroy Jr -- 15. Politics, Economics and the Governance Environments Shaping Middle East Defence Expenditures and Their Impact on Growth / Robert E. Loonet -- 16. Australia, Britain, Canada, the US and the ABCA Relationship / Andrew Dorman, Joyce P. Kaufman and Craig Stone -- 17. The Foreign and Defence Policies of the Nordic Countries and the Unique Case of Denmark´s Military Activism / Henning Sorensen -- 18. Defence Politics of the Korean Pensula / Jin H. Pak -- 19. The people´s Republic of China / Zhiqun Zhu -- 20. Domestic Politics and Defence Policy in Taiwan / Michael S. Chase -- 21. The Dynamics of Turkish Security: Domestic, Regional and Global Factors / Catherine Harrison and Gokhan Yucel -- 22. Democracy in an Ongoing Conflict: The Politics of Defence in Israel / Arie Perliger -- 23. Alone Together: Russia and the US in the Post - Soviet Era / Thomas Sherlock -- Part III: US Dimensions -- 24. US Defence Policymaking: A 21st-Century Perspective / Frank L. Jones -- 25. Recanting the ghosts of Vietnam: The Evolution of Modern US Land Warfare Doctrine / Dave Dudas and Don Snider -- 26. Defence Consolidation in the US / O. Shawn Cupp -- 27. The Politics and Strategy of US Military Intervention in the Middle East / Bradley L. Bowman -- Part IV: The Future of Defence Politics and Policy -- 28. Expanding Our Notions of Defence / Verónica Mara Ziliotto -- 29. Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in Asia / Stephen J. Cimbala -- 30. Duelling Regimes: International Legal Constraints versus Humanist Intervention / Isaiah Wilson III -- Maps -- Bibliography -- Index.