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Understanding Security
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This broad-ranging new text introduces a wide range of theoretical perspectives with a central focus on their application to understanding key issues in global, state and human security in the contemporary world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is Security?
- 1 Understanding and Theorizing Security
- 2 Traditional Rationalist Approaches to Security
- 3 Critical Approaches and New Frameworks
- 4 The Sovereign State and Internal Security
- 5 Acting under Uncertainty: The Security Dilemma,Strategy and Risk
- 6 Global and Regional Security Formations
- 7 War and Killing
- 8 Arms Trade, Arms Control and Disarmament
- 9 Human Security
- 10 Weak States and Intervention
- 11 Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- 12 Migration, Crime and Borders
- 13 Environmental, Energy and Resource Security
- 14 Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Index