Australian Security After 9/11
Subtitle: New And Old Agendas
Contributors: Derek McDougall (Editor); Peter Shearman (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780754645153
Subjects: International relations; Security services; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; National security; International Relations - General; Political Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Politics/International Relations; Australia; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Military Science; Defenses; Military policy
First sentence: My most formidable current challenge comes with my role as a member of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, in which I find myself trying, in the context of the sixtieth anniversary of the UN system in 2005, to take stock of the whole international security system, with its handful of strengths and innumerable weaknesses, and to suggest how we might begin to change it for the better.