TY - BOOK AU - SNYDER Craig A (ed.) TI - Contemporary security and strategy SN - 0333739647 (pbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - Basingstoke, UK PB - Macmillan KW - NUCLEAR STRATEGY KW - NUCLEAR WEAPONS KW - PROLIFERATION KW - SECURITY KW - STRATEGIC STUDIES KW - WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION N2 - Beginning with an introduction to the evolution of strategic thought the book goes on to discuss how the international system is organised and what implications this has for how people think about and define security - for example what is it that is being secured, the person, the state, or an ethnic group? Finally the book looks at the implications of the existence and spread of weapons of mass destruction and the changes in modern warfare ER -