In 2012, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey contended that "we are living in the most dangerous time in my lifetime, right now." In 2013, he was more assertive, stating that the world is "more dangerous than it has ever been." Is this accurate? In this book, an edited volume of papers presented at the Cato Institute's Dangerous World Conference, experts on international security assess, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security. The authors examine the most frequently referenced threats, including wars between nations and civil wars within nations, and discuss the impact of rising nations, weapons proliferation, general unrest, transnational crime, and state failures.

800x600 1. How Dangerous? Understanding ThermonuclearWar and the History That Never Happened
by Francis J. Gavin
2. China's Putative Threat to U.S. NationalSecurity by Lyle J. Goldstein
3. Security Threats in Contemporary WorldPolitics: Potential Hegemons, Partnerships, and
Primacy by Brendan Rittenhouse Green
4. How to Deter Terrorism: A New Strategy byMax Abrahms
5. America and Illicit Globalization as aSecurity Threat: Myths, Misconceptions, and
Historical Lessons by Peter Andreas
6. The Management of Savagery: Policy Optionsfor Confronting Sub-State Threats
by Austin Long
7. The American Perception of Sub-StateThreats by Paul Pillar
8. It's Coming from Inside the House by MichaelCohen
9. Delusions of Danger: The Persistence ofGeopolitical Fear in U.S. Foreign Policy
by Christopher Fettweis
10. Dealing with Cyberattacks by MartinLibicki
11. Climate Change and National Security:Balancing the Costs and Benefits by Mark Stewart
12. Bucks for the Bang? Assessing theEconomic Returns to Military Primacy
by Daniel W. Drezner
13. Commerce at War: Assessing the Value ofMilitary Protection for Trade by Eugene Gholz
14. Commanding the Commons: Prospects andOptions for the United States
byJoshua R. Shifrinson and Sameer Lalwani
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Edited by Christopher A. Preble and John Mueller