PRIO New Security Studies

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1. Politics of Catastrophe

   Genealogies of the Unknown

   By Claudia Aradau, Rens Van Munster

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events – such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics – which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Critical Perspectives on Human Security

   Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations

   Edited by David Chandler, Nik Hynek

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR. The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Securitization, Accountability and Risk Management

   Transforming the Public Security Domain

   Edited by Karin Svedberg Helgesson, Ulrika Mörth

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This edited volume examines the reconstitution of the public security domain since the 9/11 attacks, focusing on the banking sector and anti-money laundering (AML) activity in particular. Since the inception of the ‘Financial Action Taskforce’ (FATF) in 1989, AML has been viewed as a global problem...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Security, the Environment and Emancipation

   Contestation over Environmental Change

   By Matt McDonald

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a...

   Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Security, Risk and the Biometric State

   Governing Borders and Bodies

   By Benjamin Muller

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has...

   Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Ethical Subject of Security

   Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe

   By J. Peter Burgess

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place. First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security and...

   Published February 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Feminist Security Studies

   A Narrative Approach

   By Annick T. R. Wibben

   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
8. Securitization Theory

   How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve

   Edited by Thierry Balzacq

   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
9. Security and Global Governmentality

   Globalization, Governance and the State

   Edited by Miguel de Larrinaga, Marc G. Doucet

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two. The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society allows us to consider the connection of two...

   Published May 18th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Geopolitics of American Insecurity

    Terror, Power and Foreign Policy

    Edited by Francois Debrix, Mark Lacy

    Series: PRIO New Security Studies

    This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony America...

    Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge