Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. It gives students a detailed overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes and most significant issues within security studies. Part 1 explores the main theoretical approaches currently used within the field from realism to international political sociology. Part 2 explains the central concepts underpinning contemporary debates from the security dilemma to terrorism. Part 3 presents an overview of the institutional security architecture currently influencing world politics using international, regional and global levels of analysis. Part 4 examines some of the key contemporary challenges to global security from the arms trade to energy security. Part 5 discusses the future of security. Security Studies provides a valuable new teaching tool for undergraduates and MA students by collecting these related strands of the field together into a single coherent textbook.
Author(s): Paul Williams
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 568
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
BOXES, FIGURES AND TABLES......Page 12
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 20
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 22
CHAPTER 1: Security Studies: An Introduction......Page 26
PART 1: THEORETICAL APPROACHES......Page 38
CHAPTER 2: Realism......Page 40
CHAPTER 3: Liberalism......Page 54
CHAPTER 4: Game Theory......Page 69
CHAPTER 5: Constructivism......Page 84
CHAPTER 6: Peace Studies......Page 98
CHAPTER 7: Critical Theory......Page 114
CHAPTER 8: Feminist Perspectives......Page 128
CHAPTER 9: International Political Sociology......Page 141
PART 2: KEY CONCEPTS......Page 156
CHAPTER 10: Uncertainty......Page 158
CHAPTER 11: War......Page 176
CHAPTER 12: Terrorism......Page 196
CHAPTER 13: Genocide and Mass Killing......Page 210
CHAPTER 14: Ethnic Conflict......Page 225
CHAPTER 15: Coercion......Page 241
CHAPTER 16: Human Security......Page 254
CHAPTER 17: Poverty......Page 269
CHAPTER 18: Environmental Change......Page 285
CHAPTER 19: Health......Page 299
PART 3: INSTITUTIONS......Page 314
CHAPTER 20: Alliances......Page 316
CHAPTER 21: Regional Institutions......Page 332
CHAPTER 22: The United Nations......Page 350
PART 4: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES......Page 368
CHAPTER 23: The International Arms Trade......Page 370
CHAPTER 24: Nuclear Proliferation......Page 386
CHAPTER 25: Counterterrorism......Page 401
CHAPTER 26: Counterinsurgency......Page 414
CHAPTER 27: Peace Operations......Page 432
CHAPTER 28: The Responsibility to Protect......Page 447
CHAPTER 29: Private Security......Page 463
CHAPTER 30: Transnational Organized Crime......Page 478
CHAPTER 31: Population Movements......Page 493
CHAPTER 32: Energy Security......Page 508
CONCLUSION......Page 522
CHAPTER 33: What Future for Security Studies?......Page 524
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 537
INDEX......Page 565
