Contemporary Security Studies - Softcover

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9780199284696: Contemporary Security Studies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199284695 ISBN 13: 9780199284696

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

This major new textbook brings together key scholars to introduce students to the fast-evolving field of security studies. The book is divided into three sections: differing approaches to the study of security; the broadening and deepening of security; and a range of traditional and non-traditional issues that have emerged on the security agenda.

The study of international security has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War. While war and the threat to use force is part of the security equation it is not exclusively so. Security studies encompasses dangers that range from pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, and environmental degradation through to the more readily associated security concerns of direct violence, such as terrorism and inter-state armed conflict.

Accessible and easy to use, Contemporary Security Studies is essential reading for all students new to international security.

The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Center.

Student resources:

Case studies on the Iraq War, Zimbabwe, migration and North Korea
Web links
Multiple Choice Questions
Flashcard glossary

Lecturer resources:

PowerPoint slides

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About the Author:

Dr Alan Collins is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea

Review:

This is an excellent textbook as well as a great scholarly read. Collins has brought together a very distinguished group of scholars to deal with some of the most pressing security challenges of our time from a theoretical and historical perspective. Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington DC This volume links theory to substance. It offers diverse and competing conceptual lenses for thinking about the nature of security and specific challenges. Readers will come away educated, not merely informed. Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College and London School of Economics and Political Science Since the end of the Cold War and following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the security studies field has been in dire need of a core textbook for undergraduates. It now has one. Even as the international security outlook continues to change at an unsettling pace, this bigger and better edition adeptly tracks and tackles those changes in ways that will bring out the most creativity in teachers and students alike. Geoffrey Wiseman, University of Southern California An excellent introduction. The collection is particularly useful in bringing together major recent approaches in security studies and explaining their philosophical background and practical implications. Roland Dannreuther, University of Edinburgh

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