The Handbook of Global Security Policy [Hardcover]

This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century.

• Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks for violence
• Offers comprehensive coverage framed around key security concepts, risks, policy tools, and global security actors
• Discusses pressing contemporary issues including terrorism, disarmament, genocide, sustainability, international peacekeeping, state-building, natural disasters, energy and food security, climate change, and cyber warfare
• Includes insightful and accessible contributions from around the world aimed at a broad base of scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers

Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century 1
Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov

Part I Key Concepts 9

1 Global Security 11
Ken Booth

2 Security and Social Critique 31
David Mutimer

3 Gender and Security 51
Natasha Marhia

4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s) 68
Sabine Selchow

5 Human Security 85
Mary Kaldor

Part II Policy Arenas 103

6 Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation 105
Maria Rost Rublee

7 Terrorism and Antiterrorism 126
Ekaterina Stepanova

8 Genocide and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations 145
Martin Shaw

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