Catastrophic Consequences Civil Wars and American Interests

Name: Catastrophic Consequences Civil Wars and American Interests
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ISBN: 9780801889899

ISBN-10: 0801889898

ISBN-13: 9780801889899

Edition: 2008

Authors: Steven R. David

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Civil war and other types of radical domestic upheaval are replacing war as the preeminent threat to American security and economic well being, according to Steven R. David. Catastrophic Consequences argues that civil conflicts are of even greater importance than deliberate efforts to harm the United States or to undermine its interests precisely because they are unintended -- and therefore impossible to deter. David examines the prospects for and potential aftereffects of instability in four nations vital to U.S. national interests -- Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico. It is not, he argues, a rising China that threatens America, but one that is falling apart. Likewise, it is not a…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



A New Kind of Threat



Saudi Arabia: Oil Fields Ablaze



Pakistan: Loose Nukes



Mexico: A Flood of Refugees



China: Collapse of a Great Power



The Coming Storm


Notes


Index