| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Handbook of global policy series |
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Handbook of global policy series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century. Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks for violence Offers comprehensive coverage framed around key security concepts, risks, policy tools, and global security actors Discusses pressing contemporary issues including terrorism, disarmament, genocide, sustainability, international peacekeeping, state-building, natural disasters, energy and food security, climate change, and cyber warfare Includes insightful and accessible contributions from around the world aimed at a broad base of scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers. |
| Contents |
The Handbook of Global Security Policy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century; Structure and Organization of the Book; References; Part I Key Concepts; Chapter 1 Global Security; What is a Global Security Issue? Existential and Emancipatory Threats; "Security"; "Global"; "Global Security Threats"; Where Are We In History? The Paradoxes of Proximity; Where Are We Going? The Evolving Global Securityscape and the Inconvenient Truth of the International; Global Existential Threats; Global Emancipatory Threats |
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The Challenge: Can we Escape the "Madness of Sanity"?Global Consciousness; Individual Engagement; Global Identity Formation; Global Institutional Reform; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Security and Social Critique; Security Studies Meets Social Critique; Feminism and the Critique of Violence; United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; After Frankfurt: Security as Emancipation; Zuccotti Park as Security "Policy"; The Radical Promise of Poststructuralism; The Biometric Border; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Gender and Security; State-Centric Security and Gendered Violences |
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The Securitization of Sexual and Gender-Based ViolenceHumanizing Security, Gendering Security?; Gender Narratives and the "War on Terror"; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s); Introduction; The Modern Invention Called "Risk"; Security Policies and the Logic of "Risk'; The Dynamic of the Decoupling of Political Acts from the Grounds of Actuality; The Dynamic of a Depolitization of (Security) Policymaking; The Dynamic of an "Internalization" of (Global) Security Issues and the Process of Responsibilization |
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The Dynamic of an Expanding Process of "Securitization'Summary; "Global Risks" and the Imperative to Rethink Modern (Security) Institutions; "Global Risks"; "Risk Society" and "Reflexive Modernity"; Summary; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 5 Human Security; The Evolution of the Concept of Human Security; Origins; The Context; The Barcelona Version of Human Security; The Impact of the War on Terror; The Critiques of Human Security; What it is to be Human; The Meaning of Security; Biopower; Reconstructing Human Security; Notes; References; Part II Policy Arenas |
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Chapter 6 Nuclear Disarmament and NonproliferationDeconstructing Nonproliferation and Disarmament; Nuclear Nonproliferation; History of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; The Causes of Nuclear Restraint; Restraint, Hedging, or Ambiguity?; Nuclear Disarmament; History of Negotiations for Nuclear Disarmament; Is Disarmament Desirable?; Is Disarmament Achievable?; New Frontiers in Policy and Research; Questioning Deterrence; Norm Entrepreneurs: Promoting Both Disarmament and Proliferation?; The Individual: Future Plains of Research; Comparative Conclusions: Beyond Nuclear Politics; Notes |
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Security, International.
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Security, International -- Forecasting.
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Security, International |
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Security, International -- Forecasting |
| Added Author |
Kaldor, Mary, editor.
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Rangelov, Iavor, 1977- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Handbook of global security policy. Global security and international law 9781118442975 (DLC) 2013049972 (OCoLC)865544022 |
| ISBN |
9781118533796 |
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1118533798 |
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9781118442999 |
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1118442997 |
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9781118442975 |
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1118442970 |
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