SECURITY DILEMMAS: SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE APPROACHES ON ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SHIELD Cover Image

SECURITY DILEMMAS: SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE APPROACHES ON ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SHIELD
SECURITY DILEMMAS: SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE APPROACHES ON ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SHIELD

Author(s): Alexandra Sarcinschi
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: security dilemma; power; antiballistic missile shield; arms race; USA; Iran;

Summary/Abstract: Characteristics of current security environment, while posing new complex problems in achieving security, can be studied based on some of the theoretical models that also explained world during the Cold War. Thus, this paper proposes the application of security dilemma theory in a realistic analysis of one of the most pressing issues on the agenda of International Relations in recent years, namely anti-ballistic missile shield. We refer to three points of view belonging to the main parties involved in the process: United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the scientific community that has an objective view on this issue, one could say.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 37-42
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English