Brown, Michael E., ed. Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century.(Book Review)

Perspectives on Political Science, January, 2004 by Lawson, Fred H.

Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press 352 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-87840-142-3 Publication Date: August 2003

Anyone who thinks that the end of the Cold War made national security problems more straightforward or less dangerous will be confounded by the thirteen essays in Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century. Countries that deploy the most sophisticated forms of military technology, Timothy Hoyt argues, also will exhibit the greatest susceptibility to electronic or information-oriented assaults (27-28). Bernard Finel, Brian Finlay, and Janne Nolan claim that the diffusion of advanced communications systems, including the Internet, has augmented the capacity of governments and "terrorist and criminal factions" alike to gain the skills...

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