"July 26, 1997" "...the Strategic Studies Institute and Dickinson College's Clarke Center co-sponsored the series of lectures on American national security after the Cold War which are contained in this volume." -- p. v.

Introduction [The state of the national security state] / David Jablonsky -- The new meanining of security / Ronald Steel -- The Department of Defense : the first half century / Lawrence Korb -- What should the National Security Act of 1998 look like? / Morton H. Halperin -- American national security in the early 21st century / Robert F. Ellsworth.