Security Studies

Höfundar: Norma Rossi; Malte Riemann (Útgáfa: 1)
Security Studies

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Security Studies: An Applied Introduction offers a transformative tool to understand, analyse, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies with the following features: Policy-Relevant: each chapter provides analysis of policy responses to empirical security issues. This practical approach offers a toolkit to assess and contribute to real-world policy discussions.

Empirical Application: vividly demonstrating the real-world relevance of Security Studies with online videos from leading security practitioners to show how theory informs practice. Pedagogically Rich: comprehensive online resources and chapters features such as ′security beyond the real′ and hands-on exercises that critically assess real-world security responses and their policy implications that offer ways to apply theoretical concepts in a highly innovative way.

Innovative Structure: seamlessly integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical security concerns, this textbook offers a non-compartmentalised approach to theory and practice. Hot Topics: placing contemporary, creative, emerging, and underexplored approaches and empirical topics at the forefront including cyber security, racism, and space security. This is the perfect introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Security Studies and International or Global Security.

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Útgefandi
SAGE Publications, Ltd. (UK)
ISBN
9781529615555
Print ISBN
9781529774603
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Norma Rossi; Malte Riemann
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2024-03-15
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
30
Afritunar takmörkun
30

Kaflar

  • About the editors and authors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Online resources
  • Part I Whose security?: History, theories and institutions
  • 1 Introducing security studies: An applied introduction
  • Chapter overview
  • Introduction
  • Whose security?
  • Theories of (in)security
  • Theory and practice of security: A guide to the textbook
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • 2 Security: When? Where? From what? Of what? For whom?
  • Chapter overview
  • Key learning goals
  • Security as a question
  • Pluralized sources of insecurity
  • Pluralized subjects of security
  • So who is now to be secured?
  • Review questions
  • Further readings
  • 3 International security
  • Chapter overview
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • International as a space where inter-state security dynamics take place
  • International as a security referent
  • The international as a challenge to security for some
  • International as hierarchy amidst anarchy
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • 4 State security
  • Chapter overview
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • What is the state?
  • The (auto)biographies of the state
  • The state and state security in sovereignty cartels
  • The state as a security threat
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • 5 Human security
  • Chapter overview
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Broadening, deepening and opening security
  • Human security in practice
  • Three framings of the human as security referent
  • Human security for whom? The case of Agnes
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • 6 Security beyond the human
  • Chapter overview
  • Key learning goals
  • Knowledge systems, nonhumans and security
  • Nonhuman rights and security
  • More-than-human frameworks of security
  • Nonhuman security threats and post-humanist thought
  • Conclusions
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Part II Security challenges
  • 7 War and militarism
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The Yugoslav wars of the 1990s
  • Understand: The study of war and militarism
  • Respond: Responding to war and militarism
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 8 Genocide and crimes against humanity
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Crimes against humanity and genocide in contemporary global politics
  • Understand: Genocide – key concepts
  • Respond: Brazil
  • Conclusion
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 9 Terrorism
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Race and political violence
  • Understand: Terrorism, counterterrorism and supremacism
  • Respond: The social and political functions of ‘terrorism’
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 10 The global arms trade and its control
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Arming the war in Yemen
  • Understand: Challenging dominant approaches
  • Respond: Accountability for arms sales to the Saudi- and UAE-led coalition
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 11 Weapons of mass destruction
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The 2003 US war in Iraq
  • Understand: Interrogating the WMD category
  • Respond: WMD in the 2003 US war in Iraq
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 12 Street gangs and urban violence
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Street gangs in Haiti
  • Understand: What is urban violence? How should we define violent urban actors?
  • Respond: Street gangs in Haiti
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 13 Global development
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The problem of conflict-related sexual violence
  • Understand: CRSV as a threat to security and development. Centering the ‘human’ and the ‘state’?
  • Respond: Mobile courts
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the ‘real’
  • 14 Migration
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The simultaneous deep appreciation and demonisation of migrants
  • Understand: Foregrounding colonialism, rethinking the ‘safety’ of home, and reflecting on the allure of ‘balance’
  • Respond: Striking migrant workers
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 15 Race and security
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The licit life of racism and in/security
  • Understand: “What is going on?”:2 Whiteness as property, war, and climate change
  • Respond: “We are all in this together”?
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 16 Conflict and gendered violence
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Gendered dimensions of Afghan conflict (2001–2021)
  • Understand: Gendered violence and international security
  • Respond: Moving forward in Afghanistan and Ukraine
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the ‘real’
  • 17 Organised crime
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The maxi-trial Rinascita-Scott and the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, Italy
  • Understand: Defining organised crime
  • Respond: The maxi-trial Rinascita-Scott and the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, Italy
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 18 Cybersecurity
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Cybersecurity
  • Understand: Why is cybersecurity political?
  • Understand: National and international cybersecurity
  • Understand: Cybersecurity beyond the state
  • Understand: Cybersecurity in practice
  • Respond: Colonial Pipeline
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 19 Financial crises and security
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Cascading financial and political crises
  • Understand: Recurring crises, war economy, and populist politics
  • Respond: Global financial crisis and its afterlives
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 20 Climate change
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Climate change, security and the UNSC
  • Understand: The climate change–security nexus
  • Respond: The UNSC – climate change as a threat multiplier and the progressive climatization of security
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further readings
  • Security beyond the real
  • 21 Health security
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The rise of health security
  • Understand: Emergency and neglect
  • Respond: Reclaiming (everyday) health security
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 22 Resource security
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: Food insecurity and the Arab Spring
  • Understand: Securing resources
  • Respond: Food insecurity and the Arab Spring
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 23 Maritime security
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction
  • Explore: The context for maritime security
  • Understand: The history of the maritime security agenda
  • Respond: Governing maritime security through informality
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • 24 Space security
  • Key learning goals
  • Introduction: Why is space rubbish a security issue?
  • Explore: Litter at 15,000 mph
  • Understand: Three key lenses for the examination of space debris
  • Respond: Voluntary standards and guidelines
  • Problem-mapping exercise
  • Conclusion
  • Review questions
  • Further reading
  • Security beyond the real
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index