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Kalliopi Chainoglou
Cooperating for Peace and Security presents a comprehensive collection of essays on multilateral security cooperation since 1989. Leading experts on wide-ranging topics within the ambit of international security and international cooperation analyse the complex relationship between multilateralism and United States security interests.
After the end of the Cold War, scholars from various disciplines envisaged the United States, as the sole single-power of the international system, shaping international security arrangements in accordance with its security interests and policy considerations. The atrocious terrorist attacks of 9/11 put terrorism on the priorities of the US security agenda; as a consequence, the US started a �war on terror�, which effectively engaged not only the US and its allies, but also the United Nations. Up to 2003, when the US clashed with the UN, the US played a significant role in the evolution (and innovation) of international security institutions within and outside the UN.
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks and in the aftermath of the failure of the UN reform initiative in 2005, the US has taken diverse paths in the realms of international peace and security, foreign policy, and diplomacy. Following the challenging strategies that were enunciated by the Bush administration in 2002 and 2006, the Obama administration issued the new Security Strategy Doctrine in May 2010.
The first Bush doctrine, in 2002, was promulgated in time in order to clarify the intentions of the US in view of the �then� contemporary threats, namely terrorists or non-state actors, rogue states, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Even though the US response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was encouraging for those who expressed their concerns about the single superpower's tendency towards unilateralism, international law scholars reflected extensively on visions concerning the emergence (or even the existence) of international hegemonic law whereby international �
