Understanding Security

ISBN-13: 9780230291249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 360 str.

Mike Bourne

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Mike Bourne is Lecturer in International Security at Queen's University Belfast, UK.