The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

Focusing on contemporary challenges, this major new Handbook offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.

The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past twenty years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. It now encompasses issues ranging from pandemics and environmental degradation to more traditional concerns about direct violence, such as those posed by international terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. A comprehensive volume, comprising articles by both established and up-and-coming scholars, the Handbook of Security Studies identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate today.

This Handbook is a benchmark publication with major importance both for current research and the future  of the field. It will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations.

Victor Mauer is Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at ETH Zurich. His recent publications include European-American Relations and the Middle East: From Suez to Iraq, (co-edited with Daniel Möckli), and Power and Security in the Information Age, (co-edited with Myriam Dunn Cavelty).

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Head of the New Risk Research Unit at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, and Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Her recent publications include Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US Efforts to Secure the Information Age, and Securing the Homeland: Critical Infrastructure, Risk, and (In)Security, (co-edited with Kristian Søby Kristensen).

Contributors Claudia Aradau, Thierry Balzacq, Masooda Bano, Martin Beck, Alex J. Bellamy, Thomas J. Biersteker, Arjen Boin, Barry Buzan, Richard Caplan, Tobias Debiel, Magnus Ekengren, Mark Fitzpatrick, Pieter Fourie, Sumit Ganguly, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Mark A. Heller, Jef Huysmans, Bruce W. Jentleson, David C. Kang, Barry Kellman, Pauline Kerr, Daniel Lambach, Anna Leander, Richard Ned Lebow, Jeffrey Mankoff, Carlo Masala, Herfried Münkler, David Mutimer, Iver B. Neumann, Colleen O'Manique, Robert W. Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Oliver Ramsbotham, Mark Rhinard, David L. Rousseau, Amin Saikal, Scott Snyder, Vicki Squire, Gareth Stansfield, Tobias Theiler, Ole Magnus Theisen, Rens van Munster, Thomas C. Walker, Annick T.R. Wibben, Paul Wilkinson, Phil Williams, James J. Wirtz, William C. Wohlforth, Tom Woodhouse.