Understanding Security
Published on 6. December 2013
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-230-29123-2 (ISBN)
Description
This broad-ranging new text introduces a wide range of theoretical perspectives with a central focus on their application to understanding key issues in global, state and human security in the contemporary world.
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Edition
2014
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-29123-2 (9780230291232)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-40210-3
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Person
Mike Bourne is Lecturer in International Security at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Content
Introduction: What is Security?.- 1. Understanding and Theorising Security.- 2. Traditional Rationalist Approaches to Security.- 3. Critical Approaches and New Frameworks.- 4. The Sovereign States and Internal Security.- 5. Acting Under Uncertainty.- 6. Global and Regional Security Formation.- 7. War and Killing.- 8. Arms Trade, Arms Control and Disarmament.- 9. Human Security.- 10. Weak States and Intervention.- 11. Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism.- 12. Migration, Crime and Borders.- 13. Environment, Energy and Resource Security.- Conclusion.