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  • Formaat: Hardback, 496 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jan-2023
  • Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1399505432
  • ISBN-13: 9781399505437
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 496 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jan-2023
  • Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1399505432
  • ISBN-13: 9781399505437
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Confronts the world's key global security issues and challenges in the twenty-first century

Provides a comprehensive analysis of core global security challenges of the 21st Century with emphasis on the third decade Traverses a range of analyses across the spectrum between core global security challenges (environment, WMDS, health, gender, great power politics, etc) with ongoing theoretical debates (critical theoretical approaches, traditional orthodox approaches) Encompasses a diverse range of emerging, middle and senior academics from around the world, covering a multitude of topics in the global security domain Provides a much-needed re-assessment amidst one of the most defining global junctures in 21st Century, if not the last 70 plus years

This book presents a range of analyses across the security spectrum, bringing a deep understanding of core global security challenges into contention with ongoing theoretical debates between critical and traditional approaches. Chapters analyse the evolving and shifting dynamics of geopolitics, prolonged armed conflicts, large-scale public health emergencies, and economic fractures. Additionally, authors discuss climate shocks, deepening social and economic inequity, trends in nationalism and populism, gendered violence, as well as challenges pertaining to cyber insecurity, emerging technologies, nuclear weapons, and global terrorism. The book illustrates these unparalleled circumstances, taken together with the epochal juncture expressed in the global pandemic, have evolved and coalesced to redefine the many complexities and oscillations of global security.

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"This impressive collection is a timely re-examination of key global security challenges. It is a thoughtful, clear, comprehensive and highly engaging analysis of contemporary trends, issues and approaches to everyday and international security. With its accomplished and exciting list of contributors and topics, this volume is essential reading for every student and practitioner working in the fields of peace, conflict and security, and for anyone seeking to better understand today's complex security environment." -Devon E. A. Curtis, University of Cambridge

Contributors Biographies
Foreword, Cynthia Enloe
Introduction: Global Security in the Pandemic Age, Aiden Warren
Part 1: Approaches
Chapter 1: Critical Approaches and Security, Christine Agius
Chapter 2: Traditional Approaches and Security, Adam Bartley
Chapter 3: Globalization and Security, Paul James
Chapter 4: Great Power Politics and Security, Reuben Steff
Chapter 5: Gender and Security, Kaye Quek
Chapter 6: Post-Colonialism and Security, Peter Phipps
Chapter 7: Human Security, Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Chapter 8: Humanitarianism and Security, Vandra Harris
Part 2: Issues and Challenges
Chapter 9: Pandemics and Health Security, Erin M. Sorrell
Chapter 10: Environmental Security, Maria Julia Trombetta
Chapter 11: Global Terrorism and Security, Mia Bloom
Chapter 12: Emerging Technologies and Security, Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas
Chapter 13: Cyber Security, Jennifer Hunt
Chapter 14: Nuclear Weapons and Security, Aiden Warren
Chapter 15: The Middle East and Security, Ash Rossiter and Brendon Cannon
Chapter 16: The Indo-Pacific and Security, Nick Bisley
Chapter 17: The UN and Security, Shirley Scott and Ngoc Nguyen
Bibliography

Contributors Biographies; Foreword, Cynthia Enloe; Introduction: Global Security in the Pandemic Age, Aiden Warren; Part 1: Approaches
Chapter 1: Critical Approaches and Security, Christine Agius;
Chapter 2: Traditional Approaches and Security, Adam Bartley;
Chapter 3: Globalization and Security, Paul James;
Chapter 4: Great Power Politics and Security, Reuben Steff;
Chapter 5: Gender and Security, Kaye Quek;
Chapter 6: Post-Colonialism and Security, Peter Phipps;
Chapter 7: Human Security, Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh;
Chapter 8: Humanitarianism and Security, Vandra Harris; Part 2: Issues and Challenges;
Chapter 9: Pandemics and Health Security, Erin M. Sorrell;
Chapter 10: Environmental Security, Maria Julia Trombetta,
Chapter 11: Global Terrorism and Security, Mia Bloom;
Chapter 12: Emerging Technologies and Security, Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas;
Chapter 13: Cyber Security, Jennifer Hunt;
Chapter 14: Nuclear Weapons and Security, Aiden Warren;
Chapter 15: The Middle East and Security, Ash Rossiter and Brendon Cannon;
Chapter 16: The Indo-Pacific and Security, Nick Bisley;
Chapter 17: The UN and Security, Shirley Scott and Ngoc Nguyen; Bibliography.
Cynthia Enloe is a Research Professor at Clark University. She is best known for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. She has also had major impact on the field of feminist political geography, in particular feminist geopolitics. In 2015, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, in conjunction with the academic publisher Taylor & Francis, created the Cynthia Enloe Award in honour of Cynthia Enloe's pioneering feminist research into international politics and political economy, and her considerable contribution to building a more inclusive feminist scholarly community. Among the most recent of Cynthia's 15 books are Bananas, Beaches and Bases (2014), Globalization and Militarism (2016), and The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy (2017). Cynthia is also the recipient of the Susan Strange Award and the Susan Northcut Award from the International Studies Association. Among her other recognitions are honorary doctorates from University of Iceland, University of Lund and SOAS, University of London.Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Search for Global Security (Rowman Littlefield) and The Obama Administration's Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague (Routledge). Dr Warren is also co-editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press) and Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century (Routledge). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy (IISTP), George Washington University, and Asia-Pacific Fellow at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation, Washington DC.