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.
Mike Bourne is Lecturer in International Security at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
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Introduction: What is Security?1. Understanding and Theorising Security2. Traditional Rationalist Approaches to Security3. Critical Approaches and New Frameworks4. The Sovereign States and Internal Security5. Acting Under Uncertainty6. Global and Regional Security Formation7. War and Killing8. Arms Trade, Arms Control and Disarmament9. Human Security10. Weak States and Intervention11. Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism12. Migration, Crime and Borders13. Environment, Energy and Resource SecurityConclusion.
