Critical Security Books

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1. Introduction to Emergency Management

   By Brenda D. Phillips, David M. Neal, Gary R. Webb

   August 2011 | 978-1-4398307-0-3 | Hardback (CRC Press)

2. Mass Fatalities: Managing the Community Response

   By Peter R. Teahen

   August 2011 | 978-1-4398490-2-6 | Hardback (CRC Press)

3. Security, War and Technology: Paul Virilio and the Global Politics of Disappearance

   By Mark Lacy

   This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio’s theorising on war and security. Virilio is one of the most challenging and provocative critics of technology, war and globalization. While many commentators focus on the new possibilities for mobility and communication in an...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-57604-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Democracy and Intervention

   By John Macmillan

   This book develops a systematic understanding of the conceptual, ethical, political and theoretical dimensions of intervention in an empirical/historical context. More specifically, the book aims to provide advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with a systematic and critical...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-44495-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism

   By Eamon Murphy

   This book aims to explain the rise of Pakistan as a centre of Islamic extremism by going back to the roots of the state and the nature of Islam in Pakistan. The broad aim therefore is to examine the social, and political and economic factors that have...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56526-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Routledge Handbook of Human Security

   Edited by Mary Martin, Taylor Owen

   This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past 15 years, since the concept was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1993 and 1994 Human Development Reports. The volume fills a clear gap in the...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58128-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'War on Terror' as Terror

   Edited by Scott Poynting, David Whyte

   This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state ‘counter-terrorism’ strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60720-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Liberal Terror: Global Security, Divine Power and Emergency Rule

   By Brad Evans

   This book offers a genealogical investigation into the phenomenon of terror in the 21st century. Terror has become the defining political emblem of our globally inter-connected age, resulting in an unprecedented global security effort which has given renewed purpose to the Liberal...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58882-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Behavioral Health Response to Disasters

   Edited by Julie Framingham, Martell L. Teasley

   Examining the current organizational structure of disaster behavioral health services, this book focuses on culture, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and age as factors to incorporate within treatment modalities and service delivery systems to provide efficacious and...

   June 2011 | 978-1-4398212-3-7 | Paperback (CRC Press)

10. Sovereignty

    By Jens Bartelson

    This book summarizes recent academic debates on sovereignty within academic international relations and political theory. Recent scholarship has focused on the changing meaning of the concept of sovereignty in a variety of historical and political contexts, and under what conditions these changes...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-44683-9 | Paperback (Routledge)