Format:
Online Ressource (xvi, 541 Seiten)
ISBN:
1118533798
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9781118442999
Series Statement:
HGP - Handbooks of Global Policy
Content:
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 violenceOffers comprehensive coverage framed around key security concepts, risks, policy tools, and global security actorsDiscusses pressing contemporary issues including terrorism, disarmament, genocide, sustainability, international peacekeeping, state-building, natural disasters, energy and food security, climate change, and cyber warfareIncludes insightful and accessible contributions from around the world aimed at a broad base of scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers Mary Kaldoris Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. She is the author of many books, including New Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (2013) and The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of War and Peace(2010). She was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament and of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly. Iavor Rangelovis Global Security Research Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. He is co-chair of the London Transitional Justice Network and author of Nationalism and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the Balkans and Beyond(2014).
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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The Handbook of Global Security Policy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century; Structure and Organization of the Book; References; Part I Key Concepts; Chapter 1 Global Security; What is a Global Security Issue? Existential and Emancipatory Threats; "Security"; "Global"; "Global Security Threats"; Where Are We In History? The Paradoxes of Proximity; Where Are We Going? The Evolving Global Securityscape and the Inconvenient Truth of the International; Global Existential Threats; Global Emancipatory Threats
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The Challenge: Can we Escape the "Madness of Sanity"?Global Consciousness; Individual Engagement; Global Identity Formation; Global Institutional Reform; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Security and Social Critique; Security Studies Meets Social Critique; Feminism and the Critique of Violence; United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; After Frankfurt: Security as Emancipation; Zuccotti Park as Security "Policy"; The Radical Promise of Poststructuralism; The Biometric Border; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Gender and Security; State-Centric Security and Gendered Violences
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The Securitization of Sexual and Gender-Based ViolenceHumanizing Security, Gendering Security?; Gender Narratives and the "War on Terror"; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s); Introduction; The Modern Invention Called "Risk"; Security Policies and the Logic of "Risk'; The Dynamic of the Decoupling of Political Acts from the Grounds of Actuality; The Dynamic of a Depolitization of (Security) Policymaking; The Dynamic of an "Internalization" of (Global) Security Issues and the Process of Responsibilization
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The Dynamic of an Expanding Process of "Securitization'Summary; "Global Risks" and the Imperative to Rethink Modern (Security) Institutions; "Global Risks"; "Risk Society" and "Reflexive Modernity"; Summary; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 5 Human Security; The Evolution of the Concept of Human Security; Origins; The Context; The Barcelona Version of Human Security; The Impact of the War on Terror; The Critiques of Human Security; What it is to be Human; The Meaning of Security; Biopower; Reconstructing Human Security; Notes; References; Part II Policy Arenas
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Chapter 6 Nuclear Disarmament and NonproliferationDeconstructing Nonproliferation and Disarmament; Nuclear Nonproliferation; History of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; The Causes of Nuclear Restraint; Restraint, Hedging, or Ambiguity?; Nuclear Disarmament; History of Negotiations for Nuclear Disarmament; Is Disarmament Desirable?; Is Disarmament Achievable?; New Frontiers in Policy and Research; Questioning Deterrence; Norm Entrepreneurs: Promoting Both Disarmament and Proliferation?; The Individual: Future Plains of Research; Comparative Conclusions: Beyond Nuclear Politics; Notes
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References
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780470673225
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Handbook of Global Security Policy
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Kaldor, Mary 1946-
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