Images of famine, debt, economic stagnation and decay in the South,
coupled with an uneasy acknowledgement of the interdependence of
military and economic security, demand an urgent re-evaluation of the
security relations between the South and North. In this 1989 volume,
thirteen distinguished contributors address the central problem of
competing conceptions of security. Security debates invariably give
priority and prominence to the position of the West within an East/West
equation. This work redresses this imbalance by highlighting the
concerns and priorities of the developing states in the South/North
dimensions at this time. Each of the six thematic parts comprises two
contrasting treatments; one from the Third World perspective and the
other from the viewpoint of the industrialised North. This book will be
of use to students and policy makers as well as specialists of specific
issues such as debt and political violence.