Contemporary Security Studies

Name: Contemporary Security Studies
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The definitive introduction to security studies, focusing on key theoretical approaches and the critical issues shaping today's global security landscape. Contemporary Security Studies offers a uniquely engaging introduction to Security Studies, addressing key theories and contemporary issues in the field. A team of expert scholars strikes a careful balance between depth and clarity, making it an essential companion for students exploring the modern security agenda.

Key features: · Offers broad, easy-to-digest coverage of the key theories and concepts in Security Studies · Brings together carefully edited contributions from international experts in the field, giving students insights from a range of leading scholars · 'Think point' boxes challenge students to question their own assumptions, and help to develop critical thinking skills · Case study boxes encourage students to connect theory and practice by demonstrating the real-world manifestations of political issues · Includes coverage of critical Security Studies perspectives, including poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and post-human.

· Considers a broad range of traditional and non-traditional security issues, from inter-state armed conflict and nuclear weapons to security issues centring on the environment, crime and cyber-attacks · Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support New to this edition: · Chapter 3 provides a new look on how liberal ideas underpin liberal internationalism and how these ideas have a long history of ordering international politics, but constantly find themselves contested, challenged, and in crisis.

· A new Chapter 13 on nonhuman security studies introduces students to this innovative approach to Security Studies, explaining the insecurities that arise for some humans, other species and non-sentient beings (rivers, mountains, etc) during the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity is having a fundamental impact on the planet's biosphere. · A revised Chapter 15 on military security, tracing the use of force in achieving security, and the management of force, via alliances and arms control, in statecraft.

· Chapter 22 on terrorism has been reworked to provide in-depth explanation of the challenges of defining terrorism, the complications with counter-terrorism in preventing acts of terrorism from occurring before they happen, and the insights that Critical Terrorism Studies, feminism, and postcolonialism offer. · A revised Chapter 24 on energy security, which traces the evolving concept of energy security, revealing the shifting nature of it as a geopolitical concern, and concluding by examining it from an individual rather than state perspective.

Digital Formats & Resources: The 7th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Politics Trove offer a mobile experiences and convenient access along with multiple choice questions, lecturer power point slides and lectured test bank, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit www.

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Útgefandi: Oxford University Press Academic UK

ISBN: 9780198895466

Print ISBN: 9780198895442

Format: ePub

Útgáfa: 7

Höfundar: Alan Collins

Tungumál: English

Útgefið: 2025-04-11

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Cover Page
Title page
Copyright page
Preface
Acknowledgements
New to this edition
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 2
Chapter 7
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 24
Chapter 27
Chapter 29
List of Tables
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 25
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
List of Boxes
Key Ideas
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 11
Chapter 15
Chapter 20
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Think Point
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 24
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 29
Case Study
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 28
Key Quotes
Chapter 1
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 29
How to Use This Book
Reader’s Guides
Key Ideas
Think Points
Case Studies
Key Quotes
Key Points
Glossary Terms
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
Online Resources
FOR STUDENTS
FOR REGISTERED LECTURERS
1 Introduction: What is Security Studies?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Definition of security
1.3 Structure
1.3.1 Approaches
1.3.2 Deepening and broadening
1.3.3 Traditional and non-traditional
1.4 Conclusion
List of Key Terms
Part 1 Approaches to Security
2 Realism
2.1 Introduction
2.2 What is realism?
2.2.1 Basic shared elements
2.2.2 Map of the realist family
International structure versus states’ motives
Divides within structural realism: Waltz versus offensive versus defensive realism
Realism and suboptimality
2.3 Waltz’s structural realism
2.3.1 Competition
2.3.2 Balancing
2.4 Offensive realism
2.4.1 Power maximization
2.4.2 Inefficient balancing and buckpassing
2.5 Defensive realism
2.5.1 Risks of competition
2.5.2 Benefits of cooperation
2.5.3 Variation in the security dilemma
2.5.4 Threats and balancing
2.6 Motivational realism
2.7 Realism and war
2.8 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
3 Liberalism and Liberal Internationalism
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Origins and principles of liberalism
3.3 Three basic varieties of liberal theory
3.3.1 Commercial liberalism
3.3.2 Institutional liberalism
3.3.3 Republican liberalism
3.4 Liberal internationalism—democratic peace and liberal wars
3.5 The liberal international order in times of transformation
3.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
4 Historical Materialism—Marxist Insights on Security
4.1 An overview of historical materialism/Marxism
4.2 Capitalism and neoliberalism: insecurity for labour, security for capital
4.3 The contributions of historical materialism to Security Studies
4.3.1 A crucial aspect of postcolonial thought
4.3.2 Central to the origins of Critical Security Studies
4.3.3 Deepening of Peace Studies
4.3.4 A vital resource for understanding human security
4.3.5 A substantive theory to complement social constructivism
4.3.6 Insights into how modes of production shape gender
4.3.7 Critique of the sectoral approach and securitization
4.3.8 Critique of liberalism
4.3.9 Critique of realism
4.4 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
5 Peace Studies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The early years
5.2.1 The universities get involved
5.3 Evolution amidst controversy
5.3.1 A new agenda: environment and poverty
5.3.2 The ‘maximalist’ agenda and structural violence
New goals: equality, justice, and dignity
5.4 What is peace studies now?
5.5 Responding to the new security challenges
5.5.1 A choice of responses
5.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
6 Social Constructivism
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Definitions and key concepts
6.2.1 Identity
6.2.2 Beliefs, collective ideas, and culture
6.2.3 Norms
6.2.4 Mutual constitution
6.3 Wendt’s three cultures of anarchy
6.4 Conventional and critical constructivism
6.5 Critiques of constructivism
6.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
7 Securitization Theory
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Towards securitization theory: a historical-intellectual context
7.3 From Copenhagen to the world: The evolution of securitization theory from the 1990s to the 2020s
7.3.1 A ‘new framework for analysis’: The Copenhagen School
7.3.2 Evolutions of securitization theory in the 21st century
7.4 Main empirical cases in securitization research
7.4.1 Migration
7.4.2 Religion
7.4.3 The environment and climate change
7.4.4 Health
7.5 Challenges and critiques facing securitization theory
7.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
8 Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History
8.1 Introduction: ‘Follow the sign of the gourd’
8.2 Toronto desire: Critical Security Studies
8.3 Copenhagen distinctions
8.4 Aberystwyth exclusions
8.5 Constructing security
8.6 Everyone’s other: poststructuralism and security
8.7 Beyond divisions? CASEing the joint or returning the gift?
8.8 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
9 Critical Security Studies II—Narratives of Security: Other Stories, Other Actors
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Secret agents and power bases
9.3 The subject of ‘smart’ bombs
9.4 Complicated subjects: children
9.5 Indigenous peoples and a cautionary tale
9.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Acknowledgement
List of Key Terms
10 Gender and Security
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Representations
10.3 Practical context I: war
10.4 Practical context II: civilian life
10.5 Practical context III: post-conflict environments
10.6 Multiple perceptions, same realities?
10.7 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
11 Postcolonialism
11.1 Introduction
11.2 A view from elsewhere: genealogies of the postcolonial
11.2.1 Edward Said and Orientalism
11.2.2 Subaltern Studies
11.3 Security and the colonizer’s view of the world
11.4 Decolonizing security: strategies
11.5 Conclusion: should we ‘forget security studies’?
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
12 Human Security
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Arguments for human security
12.2.1 Commission on Human Security
12.2.2 International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) and the Responsibility to Protect
12.2.3 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
12.2.4 The International Criminal Court
12.3 The genealogy of human security: what’s new?
12.3.1 The genealogy of human security
12.4 Critiques of human security
12.4.1 Too broad to be useful
12.4.2 National interest and co-optation
12.4.3 Liberal reformist tool of global capitalism
12.4.4 Neo-colonial
12.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
13 Nonhuman Security Studies
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Anthropocentrism
13.2.1 What is anthropocentrism and what are its origins?
13.2.2 How does anthropocentrism affect security?
13.3 What is nonhuman security studies?
13.3.1 A basic overview of nonhuman security studies
13.3.2 Some key streams of nonhuman security studies
13.3.3 Nonhuman approaches and Eurocentrism
13.4 Nonhumans as threats to and subjects of security
13.4.1 Nonhumans as threats to security
13.4.2 Nonhumans and threats to human survival
13.4.3 Nonhumans as objects of protection
13.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
14 Popular Culture and Security
14.1 Introduction
14.2 What do we mean by popular culture?
14.3 What makes popular culture so politically relevant?
14.4 The expansion of Security Studies and the growing interest in popular culture
14.5 The role of popular culture in conflict management
14.5.1 Shaping basic beliefs about the use of force and its rationale
14.5.2 Constructing enemy images
14.6 Popular culture and the struggle over ‘soft power’
14.6.1 Popular culture as a source of state (soft) power
14.6.2 Popular culture and soft power competition between states
14.6.3 The limitations of using pop culture to advance state interests
14.7 Popular culture and the making of peace
14.8 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
Part 2 Deepening and Broadening Security
15 Military Security
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Military force and military power
15.3 War
15.3.1 The security dilemma
15.3.2 Pre-emptive vs. preventive military action
15.4 Alliances
15.5 Deterrence and compellence
15.5.1 Compellence
15.5.2 Deterrence
15.5.3 Nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction (MAD)
15.5.4 Deterrence in the post-Cold War era
15.6 Proliferation and arms control
15.7 The costs of military security
15.8 Privatization of military force
15.9 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
16 Regime Security
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Public versus regime security
16.3 Threats to regime security
16.4 The regime insecurity loop
16.5 Security strategies of patrimonial regimes
16.5.1 Coercion
16.5.2 Accommodation
16.5.3 Manipulation
16.6 Anatomy of a weak state: Assad’s Syria
16.7 Prospects for regimes in the developing world
16.8 Conclusion: The need for sustainable governance
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
17 Societal Security
17.1 Introduction
17.2 A duality of state and societal security
17.3 Society and societal identity
17.4 Threats to societal identity
17.4.1 The five sectors of security
17.4.2 Immigration and the rise of right-wing populism
17.4.3 Genocide, ‘culturecide’, and the Yugoslav wars
17.5 Defending societal identity
17.5.1 Non-military means of defence
17.6 Conclusion
17.6.1 The charge of reification
17.6.2 Who speaks for society?
17.6.3 The dangers of voicing societal security
17.6.4 Two ‘generations’ of societal security and their applications
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
18 Environmental Security
18.1 Introduction
18.2 The origins of environmental security
18.3 Major interpretations of environmental security
18.4 Environmental change and violent conflict
18.5 Environmental change and national security
18.6 Armed forces, war, and the environment
18.7 Environmental change and human security
18.8 Environment or security?
18.9 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
19 Economic Security
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Economic science of security
19.2.1 Overview of economic theory
19.2.2 Five vectors of economic incentives
Goals
Resource constraints
Institutional constraints
Information
Time
19.3 Economic tools of security policy
19.3.1 Sanctions
19.3.2 Trade
19.3.3 Finance
19.3.4 Aid
19.4 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
20 Globalization, Development, and Security
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Globalization as a neoliberal ideology for development
20.2.1 Globalization as a concept
20.2.2 Neoliberalism and contemporary globalization
20.2.3 A neoliberal ideology for development
20.2.4 The legacy of structural adjustment programmes
20.3 Neoliberalism and the fostering of inequality
20.3.1 The rising inequality between and within nations
20.3.2 Inequality between nations
20.3.3 Inequality within nations
20.4 Global inequality as a threat to global security
20.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
Part 3 Traditional and Non-Traditional Security
21 Weapons of Mass Destruction
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Nuclear weapons
21.2.1 Nuclear-weapons effects
21.2.2 Methods of delivery
21.2.3 Impact on international politics
21.3 Chemical weapons
21.3.1 Chemical-weapons effects
21.3.2 Methods of delivery
21.3.3 Impact on international politics
21.4 Biological weapons
21.4.1 Biological-weapons effects
21.4.2 Methods of delivery
21.4.3 Impact on international politics
21.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
22 Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
22.1 Introduction
22.2 Defining Terrorism
22.3 Countering terrorism
22.4 Radicalisation and violent Extremism
22.5 Countering and Preventing Radicalisation and Extremism
22.6 Rethinking political violence in International Security Studies
22.6.1 Critical Terrorism Studies
22.6.2 Postcolonial approaches
22.6.3 Feminist approaches
22.7 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
23 Humanitarian Intervention
23.1 Introduction
23.2 The case for humanitarian intervention
23.3 The case against humanitarian intervention
23.4 The Responsibility to Protect
23.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
24 Energy Security
24.1 Introduction
24.2 The evolving concept of energy security
24.3 The geopolitics of energy security
24.4 Global energy security in the new era
24.5 Energy security and the individual
24.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important websites
List of Key Terms
25 The Weapons Trade
25.1 Introduction
25.2 History and shifting dynamics of the defence trade
25.3 Contemporary trends in the weapons trade
25.4 The illicit arms trade
25.5 Controlling the weapons trade
25.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
26 Health and Security
26.1 Introduction
26.2 Health and human security
26.3 Health and national security
26.3.1 SARS
26.3.2 Ebola
26.3.3 COVID-19 pandemic
26.4 Health and bio-security
26.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
27 Transnational Crime
27.1 Introduction
27.2 Definitions and key concepts
27.2.1 Useful concepts: networks and markets
27.2.2 Markets and globalization
27.3 ‘Crime–terror nexus’
27.4 Organized crime and the state
27.5 Case study: organized crime in Mexico
27.6 State responses to transnational crime
27.7 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
28 Cyber-Security
28.1 Introduction
28.2 Security and cyberspace
28.2.1 The inherent insecurity of computer networks
28.2.2 Computer vulnerabilities and threat agents
28.2.3 Hacking into a system
28.2.4 Cyber-incidents
28.3 Types of cyber-threats
28.3.1 Hacktivism
28.3.2 Cyber-crime
28.3.3 Cyber-espionage and cyber-exploitation
28.3.4 Cyber-terrorism
28.3.5 Cyber-influence operations
28.3.6 Cyber-related violations of human rights/repression
28.3.7 Cyber-war
28.4 The reality of cyber-conflict
28.5 Reducing cyber-in-security
28.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
29 Long After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
29.1 Introduction
29.2 The origins and institutional structure of security studies
29.3 The Golden Age of security studies
29.4 Institutionalization and stagnation
29.5 Disciplinary questioning and theoretical relaunch
29.6 Conclusion: the powers of theory and the challenges of the future
Questions
Further Reading
Important Websites
List of Key Terms
Glossary
References
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Images
2 Realism
7 Securitization Theory
19 Economic Security
21 Weapons of Mass Destruction
22 Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
24 Energy Security
27 Transnational Crime
29 Long After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies