1st Edition

Understanding Emerging Security Challenges Threats and Opportunities

By Ashok Swain Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed socio-economic-environmental challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change,... Read more

1. Introduction: Emerging Security Challenges in a Changing World  2. Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Environmental Security  3. Water Wars: Conflicts of the Twenty-First Century?  4. Protecting the Forest: Promoting Peace or Conflict?  5. Achieving Food Security: A Growing Challenge  6. Health and Security: Special Focus on HIV/AIDS  7. Migration and Conflict: The Complex Linkage  8. Conclusion: Encountering Emerging Security Challenges

Biography

Ashok Swain is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also serves as the Director of the Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development. He has written extensively on emerging security challenges, international water sharing and migration issues, and democratic development.