Seeking security in an insecure world / Dan Caldwell and Robert E. Williams, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caldwell, Dan.

Contributor:

Williams, Robert E., 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

National security.

Internal security.

Economic security.

Security (Psychology).

Threat (Psychology).

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

Seeking Security in an Insecure World is intended to provide a brief but thorough introduction to contemporary security studies. With clear and lively prose, compelling examples, and solid scholarship, it will engage both undergraduate students of international relations and general readers who wish to gain a better understanding of what security means today and how it can best be achieved.

Contents:

The meaning of security today

Conventional weapons and war : traditional threats in new forms

Nuclear weapons : living in the shadow of the mushroom cloud

Bugs and gas : biological and chemical weapons

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction : spreading insecurity?

Disease : the greatest killer

Cyber-threats : how we're all connected to the bad guys

Drugs and thugs : trafficking and international security

The state of the state : national security after 9/11

Ethnic conflict and security : ancient hatreds?

The root of all evil? : the matter of economic security

Ecological disasters and resource wars : seeking environmental security

Living in the shadow of the World Trade Center : coping with the threat of terrorism

Seeking security in an insecure world : the way forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-226) and index.

ISBN:

0742538125

0742538133

OCLC:

60650993