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International Security
An Introduction
This textbook introduces students to the study of contemporary international security. It is aimed at second and third year undergraduates as well as postgraduate students undertaking a taught Masters degree programme. Eschewing jargon, this textbook is clear and accessible;...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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US Security Policy
Origins, Politics and Contemporary Challenges
This book is an accessible and innovative introduction to the key issues and emerging challenges of US national security policy in the twenty-first century. The text explores how the United States, as the hegemonic player in the international arena, defines its security interests and objectives,...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century
A Political Analytic of Finitude
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
This book is a volume of essays on the Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century, by Professor Mick Dillon. It is at first of its kind in that no other study currently available covers the same field of research with the same degree of innovation. There is clearly growing attention to biopolitics...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Contemporary European Security
European security is a complex network of insecurities, institutions and initiatives. Europe is faced with the traditional insecurities of inter- and intra-state conflict as well as non-state threats to security such as environmental, health and human security. The region’s attempts to combat these...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Security
International Society, Democracy & Insecurity
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
This book introduces students to the central concepts in security studies and one of the most important issues in international relations. Jef Huysmans: explains recent conceptual and theoretical developments in security studies introduces contemporary security questions and changes in dominant...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Security Studies
A Reader
This reader brings together key contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, offering students an informed overview of the most significant work in security studies. The editors chart the development of the key theoretical and empirical debates in security studies in the Cold War...
Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Feminist Security Studies
A Narrative Approach
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies. The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and other...
Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
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Securitization Theory
How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Series: PRIO New Security Studies
This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book...
Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge
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Territory, War, and Peace
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book presents a collection of new and updated essays on what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war. The book argues that a key both to peace and to war lies in understanding the role territory plays as a source of conflict and inter-group violence. Of all the issues that...
Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Critical Security Studies
An Introduction
Critical Security Studies introduces students of Politics and International Relations to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. Written in an accessible and clear manner, this textbook: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to...
Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Understanding Counterinsurgency
Doctrine, operations, and challenges
This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare. Featuring essays by some of the world’s leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should...
Published April 15th 2010 by Routledge
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Gender and International Security
Feminist Perspectives
Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies
This book defines the relationship between gender and international security, analyzing and critiquing international security theory and practice from a gendered perspective. Gender issues have an important place in the international security landscape, but have been neglected both in the theory...
Published October 7th 2009 by Routledge
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International Conflict Management
This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field of international conflict management: traditional peacekeeping peace enforcement and support operations negotiation and bargaining...
Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
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Perspectives on International Security
Speeches and Papers for the 50th Anniversary Year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Series: Adelphi series
Like most years in the 50-year history of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2008 saw events that could have significant consequences for international relations and global balances of power. These included the election of Barack Obama as US president; the brief war in...
Published January 31st 2009 by Routledge
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Security Studies
An Introduction
Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. It gives students a detailed overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes and most significant issues within security studies. Part 1 explores the main theoretical approaches currently used within the...
Published May 25th 2008 by Routledge
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Understanding Global Security
2nd Edition
Fully revised to incorporate recent developments in world politics, the second edition of Understanding Global Security analyzes the variety of ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts - war,...
Published April 20th 2008 by Routledge
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