Critical Security Books

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1. 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)

2. Organizational Resilience Management: A Guide to Comprehensive Emergency Preparedness

   By James J. Leflar

   June 2011 | 978-1-4398413-7-2 | Hardback (CRC Press)

3. Mass Fatalities: Managing the Community Response

   By Peter R. Teahen

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

4. 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)

5. Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges

   Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

   Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60957-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Disaster Response: Principles and Practice

   By David M. Neal

   The first comprehensive resource on disaster response created for emergency management programs, this volume examines theoretical aspects while also addressing practical concerns related to creating an operational response plan as part of a multiphase disaster program. Command and control and...

   May 2011 | 978-1-4200817-9-4 | Hardback (Auerbach Publications)

7. 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...

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

8. Memory and Conflict Resolution

   By Rhys Kelly

   This is the first volume to examine current memory research in both the natural and social sciences for analysts of conflict and conflict resolution processes. In the last decade, memory has become an increasingly popular topic in many areas of the social sciences and humanities, providing a...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-41554-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century: A Political Analytic of Finitude

   By Michael Dillon

   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...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-48433-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Corporate Security, Terrorism and Risk

    By Karen Lund Petersen

    It is generally agreed that terrorism has broadened the field of security by blurring the distinctions between internal and external, military and police, crime and war, public and private. What before was considered ‘normal’ risk and safety issues are now seen as a concern of national security....

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-57999-5 | Hardback (Routledge)