Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Edwin Daniel Jacob (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 324
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of “security” broadly conceived. A quarter of a century has passed since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Yet our notions of security remain mired in Cold War thinking whose realist ethos is predicated on holding the nation state’s power, interests, and survival as the guiding unit of analysis in international relations. Security is ever changing. Confronting new dangers to the individual, the state, and the international order calls for new categories that speak to the new influence of globalization, international institutions, and transnational threats. Composed of original essays by a cosmopolitan mix of leading figures inside and outside the academy, this book proves relevant to any number of classes and courses, and its controversial character makes it all the more necessary and appealing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Security and Ideology....Pages 3-18
Who Really Defines National Security?....Pages 19-28
Anachronistic Research in International Relations and Security Studies....Pages 29-40
The American Nuclear Warfare State....Pages 41-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
A New Frontier in US National Security Policymaking: State and Local Governments....Pages 61-76
Imperial Hubris and the Security of the Middle East, 1979–2016....Pages 77-91
Sovereignty and Security: 9/11, the Arab Spring, and ISIS....Pages 93-104
Protection from Whom? Tensions, Contradictions, and Potential in the Responsibility to Protect....Pages 105-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Fostering Global Security....Pages 127-141
Mainstreaming Atrocity....Pages 143-156
Democracy and Stability? US Foreign Policy Post-Arab Spring....Pages 157-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Human Mobility and Security....Pages 169-181
Ecological Security....Pages 183-194
Legality of the Modern Modes of Warfare: The Case of Drones....Pages 195-208
Duties to Defend: Ethical Challenges of Cyber-Defense....Pages 209-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
State Security, Human Security, and the Problem of Complementarity....Pages 225-243
Victim Mentality and Violence: Anatomy of a Relationship....Pages 245-263
Rethinking Security Education....Pages 265-278
Neoconservatism: A Death Prematurely Foretold?....Pages 279-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-305

✦ Subjects

Foreign Policy;US Politics;Military and Defence Studies;Conflict Studies

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