Mary Kaldor is 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 Rangelov is 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).

“The changing nature of security has been breathtaking in its speed and unexpected turns since the end of the Cold War. Mary Kaldor's consistent accuracy in mapping those changes has been an invaluable and reliable guide as we enter into ever more uncertain territory. The Handbook should lie at the ready on any policy maker's desk.”  (Expofairs, 1 October 2015)

• Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century 1Mary Kaldor and Iavor RangelovPart I Key Concepts 91 Global Security 11Ken Booth2 Security and Social Critique 31David Mutimer3 Gender and Security 51Natasha Marhia4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s) 68Sabine Selchow5 Human Security 85Mary KaldorPart II Policy Arenas 1036 Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation 105Maria Rost Rublee7 Terrorism and Antiterrorism 126Ekaterina Stepanova8 Genocide and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations 145Martin Shaw9 Transnational Crime 160John P. Sullivan10 Natural Resources and Insecurity 175Anouk S. Rigterink11 The Web of Water Security 190Mark ZeitounPart III Policy Tools 20912 Civilian Protection 211Sarah Sewall13 Humanitarian Assistance 232Henry Radice14 The Evolution of International Peacekeeping 247Renata Dwan15 State-Building, Nation-Building, and Reconstruction 265Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, and David Rampton16 Strengthening Democratic Governance in the Security Sector: The Unfulfilled Promise of Security Sector Reform 282Nicole Ball17 Diplomacy and Mediation 300Àlvaro de Soto18 Global Security and International Law 320Richard Falk19 Transitional Justice 338Iavor Rangelov and Ruti TeitelPart IV Global Security Actors 35320 Reframing the Use of Force: The European Union as a Security Actor 355Mary Martin21 China 371May-Britt U. Stumbaum and Sun Xuefeng22 India as a Global Security Actor 388Jivanta Sch¨ ottli and Markus Pauli23 Security Agenda in Russia: Academic Concepts, Political Discourses, and Institutional Practices 408Andrey Makarychev24 Contextualizing Global Security: The Case of Turkey 426Aslý C¸ alkývik25 The United States 446Adam Quinn26 Civil Society in Fragile Contexts 463Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen27 Protest and Politics: How Peace Movements Shape History 482David Cortright28 Corporate Actors 505Shantanu ChakrabartiIndex 525