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Securitization Revisited Contemporary Applications and Insights

Securitization Revisited: Contemporary Applications and Insights

1st Edition

Edited By Michael J. Butler
July 25, 2019

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become ‘securitized’ and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are. A generation after the introduction of the concept of securitization to the security studies field, this book engages with how securitization and ...

Researching Non-state Actors in International Security Theory and Practice

Researching Non-state Actors in International Security: Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Andreas Kruck, Andrea Schneiker
January 23, 2019

This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security. All researchers face the same challenge, not only must they identify a suitable method for analysing their research...

Environmental Security in the Anthropocene Assessing Theory and Practice

Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice

1st Edition

By Judith Nora Hardt
September 28, 2017

This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene. The work analyses the intellectual foundations, the evolution and different interpretations, strengths and potential of the link between environment and security, but ...

US Domestic and International Regimes of Security Pacifying the Globe, Securing the Homeland

US Domestic and International Regimes of Security: Pacifying the Globe, Securing the Homeland

1st Edition

By Markus Kienscherf
May 25, 2017

This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'. The dream of liberal world peace after the Cold War is on the verge of collapsing into permanent global pacification – not only in ...

(In)Security and the Production of International Relations The Politics of Securitisation in Europe

(In)Security and the Production of International Relations: The Politics of Securitisation in Europe

1st Edition

By Jonas Hagmann
October 10, 2016

This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations. What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats? ...

Securing Health HIV and the Limits of Securitization

Securing Health: HIV and the Limits of Securitization

1st Edition

By Suzanne Hindmarch
April 28, 2016

This book offers a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease as a security issue. In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly ‘low’ politics of global health meet the ‘high’ politics of security, and when the logic of security comes to ...

Ethical Security Studies A New Research Agenda

Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda

1st Edition

Edited By Jonna Nyman, Anthony Burke
March 01, 2016

 At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies. In this volume, working from a diverse range of perspectives—poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism, ...

Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism 'Caring' for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: 'Caring' for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

1st Edition

By Volha Piotukh
April 14, 2015

This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault's theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful interpretation of the policies and practices associated with ‘new humanitarianism in general, as well as ...

Food Security Governance Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations

Food Security Governance: Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations

1st Edition

By Nora McKeon
January 23, 2015

This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global food governance. Today’s food system generates hunger alongside of food waste, burgeoning health problems, massive greenhouse gas emissions. Applying food system analysis to review how the ...

Ethics and Global Security A cosmopolitan approach

Ethics and Global Security: A cosmopolitan approach

1st Edition

By Anthony Burke, Katrina Lee-Koo, Matt McDonald
July 07, 2014

This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security. Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to global security, from the death camps, ...

Human Security as Statecraft Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

Human Security as Statecraft: Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

1st Edition

By Nik Hynek
October 25, 2013

This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them.    Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has ...

Securitization and the Iraq War The rules of engagement in world politics

Securitization and the Iraq War: The rules of engagement in world politics

1st Edition

By Faye Donnelly
August 08, 2013

This book critiques the conceptualization of security found in mainstream and critical theoretical debates, and applies this to the empirical case of the 2003 Iraq War. The Iraq War represents one of the most puzzling, complex, and controversial events in the post-Cold War era. The manner in which...

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