U.S. national security : a reference handbook / Cynthia A. Watson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Background and History -- The Effects of Jihadists -- What Does National Security Mean? -- National Security Encompasses New Issues -- The U.S. Experience since the September 11 Attacks -- The Changing National Security Community -- Government -- 2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions -- Questions on the Issue of National Security -- 3. Worldwide Perspective -- Geographic Imperative -- Economic Imperative -- Unilateralism versus Multilateralism -- Sovereignty: The United States versus the World -- Unipolarity versus Multipolarity after Bipolarity -- The Balance-of-Power World -- A Concrete Example of Differences: The United States and Asia -- 4. Chronology -- 5. Biographical Sketches -- John Abizaid -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- Madeleine Korbel Albright -- Ali Husaini Sistani, Grand Ayatollah -- Kofi Annan -- Osama bin Laden -- Anthony "Tony" Charles Lynton Blair -- L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer III -- George W. Bush -- George William Casey, Jr. -- Fidel Castro -- Ahmed Chalabi -- Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias -- Chen Shui-Bian -- Richard "Dick" Bruce Cheney -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Karl Eikenberry -- Tommy Franks -- Peter W. Galbraith -- Jay Garner -- William "Bill" Henry Gates III -- Albert Gore, Jr. -- Alan C. Greenspan -- Hu Jintao -- Hamid Karzai -- Zalmay Khalilzad -- Kim Jong Il -- William Kristol -- Robert Mugabe -- Peter Pace -- David H. Petreaus -- Colin Luther Powell -- Vladimir Putin -- Condoleezza Rice -- Donald Rumsfeld -- 6. Data and Documents -- Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, Public Law 96-8, 96th Congress -- George W. Bush's State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002 -- George W. Bush's Graduation Speech at West Point, June 1, 2002 -- George W. Bush's Remarks at the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002 -- George W. Bush's State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell Addresses the UN Security Council, February 5, 2003 -- George W. Bush's Address to the Nation about the Iraq Invasion, March 19, 2003 -- George W. Bush Announces that Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended, May 1, 2003 -- Military Support for Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction Operations, November 28, 2005 -- George W. Bush's State of the Union Address, January 31, 2006 -- 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report of the United States, February 6, 2005 -- The National Security Strategy of the United States, March 16, 2006 -- George W. Bush's State of the Union Message, January 23, 2007 -- 7. Organizations -- Nongovernmental Sector -- Federally Funded Research and Development Centers -- Federal Institutions -- 8. Resources -- Print Resources -- Nonprint Resources.

This book presents a thoroughly up-to-date expert analysis of national security issues in the United States, focusing on the dramatic changes brought about by the attacks of September 11, 2001.The original edition of "U.S. National Security" was published to award-winning critical acclaim. But in the aftermath of 9/11, with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Al Qaeda regrouping, growing nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, and major concerns about America's standing abroad and preparedness at home, a new edition could not be more timely - or more necessary.9/11 changed everything. In its aftermath, a security approach once focused on rival superpowers has been reinvented to fight a "global war on terror," with responses that include preemptive war, diplomacy, nation-building, the Patriot Act, and the Department of Homeland Security. Is the new approach working? Where can readers turn for an informed, unbiased evaluation of the threats we now face and how we are confronting them?Written by one of the nation's foremost security policy analysts, the second edition of "U.S.