New global dangers : changing dimensions of international security / edited by Michael E. Brown ... [et al.].

Articles first published in the journal International security from 1996 through 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Weapons and security. Command of the commons : the military foundation of U.S. hegemony / Barry R. Posen -- Why do states build nuclear weapons? Three models in search of a bomb / Scott D. Sagan -- Never say never again : nuclear reversal revisited / Ariel E. Levite -- Preventing nuclear entrepreneurship in Russia's nuclear cities / Sharon K. Weiner -- Pathogens as weapons: the international security implications of biological warfare / Gregory Koblentz -- Dreaded risks and the control of biological weapons / Jessica Stern -- Beyond the MTCR : building a comprehensive regime to contain ballistic missile proliferation / Dinshaw Mistry -- Part 2. Nonmilitary aspects of security. Human security : paradigm shift or hot air? / Roland Paris -- Environmental scarcities and violent conflict: evidence from cases / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon -- Security, stability, and international migration / Myron Weiner -- A surplus of men, a deficit of peace : security and sex ratios in Asia's largest states / Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea Den Boer -- HIV/AIDS and the changing landscape of war in Africa / Stefan Elbe -- Collateral damage : humanitarian assistance as a cause of conflict / Sarah Kenyon Lischer -- Part 3. Transactional actors and security. Market civilizations and its clash with terror / Michael Mousseau -- Behind the curve : globalization and international terrorism / Audrey Kurth Cronin -- The NGO scramble : organizational insecurity and the political economy of transnational action / Alexander Cooley and James Ron -- Corporate warriors : the rise of the privatized military industry and its ramifications for international security / P.W. Singer.