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Issue: Aug 2004, Vol. 149, No. 4

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The Need for International Rules A former UK Ambassador to the UN, argues that the United Nations must be more than an international body that names and shames.
Crispin Tickell

Intelligence and the Iraqi Threat: British Joint Intelligence after Butler Our intelligence community costs upwards of £1.5 billion annually, and prides itself on the top level assessments of its much admired Joint Intelligence Committee (the JIC), yet something went wrong.
Michael Herman

The EU, A New Partner for the UN in Peacekeeping The European Union has considerable potential as partner for the UN in developing and strengthening its capacity for rapid response – particularly in Africa.
Sarah Beaver

Emergency Planning, Security and Business Continuity There are important issues of threats to our security, argues the UK’s Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator, David Omand, that do merit exploring, both to help create an informed public understanding and to advance our grasp of the issues themselves.
David Omand

Defence Reform and PfP in Bosnia and Herzegovina Defence Reforms achieved within Bosnia and Herzegovina have been remarkable and merits the country's application to join NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP).
James Staples

NATO Transformation: The Development of a CBRN Defence Capability Deputy Commander of the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps-Italy offers a first-hand review of NATO's Response Force.
Roger Lane

New Missions, New Means The NATO Secretary-General argues that missions such as Afghanistan present wholly new challenges for NATO in terms of generating forces.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Security in the Pacific Rim: A New Zealand Perspective New Zealand High Commissioner to the UK assesses the security situation in the Pacific Rim, noting that it is important that the region is not seen as a soft touch.
Russell Marshall

Force and Legitimacy in World History Historian Jeremy Black argues that the contested relationship between different narratives of military history impinge directly on the character of international relations.
Jeremy Black

One Last Crusade: The US-British Alliance and the End of the War in the Pacific Despite fighting together in the First World War, the UK and USA parted ways after the conflict ended. How did American and British leaders get it right a second time, and keep their relationship going after World War II?
Nick Sarantakes

REVIEW: iWITNESS A retrospective photographic exhibition by Tom Stoddart
Terence McNamee

REVIEW: Control Room Jehane Noujaim’s documentary film of the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera during the Iraq War.
John Mackinlay

Letters - Which Way to Turn? Air Marshal The Lord Garden and General Sir David Ramsbotham

Comment - Only Connections Richard Cobbold

Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability 1919-1939 Book by George Franklin
Reviewed by Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch

Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle Book by Stephen Biddle

Second World War History Review of Hitler’s Mediterranean Gamble. The North African and the Mediterranean Campaigns in World War II and Eighth Army. From the Western Desert to the Alps, 1939-1945
Review by Jeremy Black

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda An autobiography by General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations force in Rwanda (UNAMIR
Reviewed by John Mackinlay

The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire Having won the Cold War ‘America had become much more’ than just another superpower: it had, in effect, become an imperial power enjoying unprecedented preponderance in a world without serious opposition to its hegemony.
Edited Andrew J. Bacevich

The Puppet Masters: Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events Book by John Hughes Wilson
Reviewed by Nigel West