Understanding security / by Mike Bourne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourne, Mike, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

Human security.

Physical Description:

vi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This innovative textbook introduces the core debates and issues in security today. It gives full consideration to traditional and critical theories and engages with a wide range of security challenges and practices, both recent and established. The text explores the main approaches to understanding security and examines the different conceptions of security in action held by states, communities and individuals. In doing this, it draws out and analyses the diverse logics of security behaviours and the limits to how security can be achieved. Organized in a thematic and accessible manner, and covering a comprehensive range of key issues-from war, terrorism and arms control to crime, migration and environmental security-Understanding Security gives a wide-ranging analysis of this key aspect of world politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Understanding and Theorizing Security 10

2 Traditional Rationalist Approaches to Security 27

3 Critical Approaches and New Frameworks 50

4 The Sovereign State and Internal Security 71

5 Acting under Uncertainty: The Security Dilemma, Strategy and Risk 93

6 Global and Regional Security Formations 115

7 War and Killing 137

8 Arms Trade, Arms Control and Disarmament 158

9 Human Security 180

10 Weak States and Intervention 200

11 Terrorism and Counterterrorism 223

12 Migration, Crime and Borders 248

13 Environmental, Energy and Resource Security 270

14 Conclusion 290.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-339) and index.

ISBN:

9780230291249

0230291244

9780230291232

0230291236

OCLC:

868996235