Impact of the Year 2001 on Multilateral Approaches to Armed Violence

Two major events of the new twenty-first century have raised crucial questions about the future success of international efforts to prevent and combat armed violence over the entire spectrum from nuclear war to cross-border terrorism, questions that overshadow many of the individual issues described in this thoughtful, well organized book on security and the environment in the Mediterranean area. These two events, of course, were the advent of the presidency of George W. Bush, with its strong tendency to unilateralism on disarmament, security and environmental issues, and the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, which of their very nature demand a multilateral international response.