Understanding Global Security: Textbook

Hough, Peter

ISBN 10: 0415296668 / ISBN 13: 9780415296663

Published by Routledge, 2005

About this Item

two small marks to the front end paper, 271 pages, reprint.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Global Security: Textbook
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415296668
• ISBN 13: 9780415296663
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

International security has once again become a crucial issue in the post-September 11th world. This textbook introduces students to the core issues of both 'hard' security, which dominated the Cold War, and the 'soft' security that has emerged since, in a clear and concise format that is easy to follow.

Understanding Global Security uses helpful case studies to illustrate the key concepts behind the increasing number of non-military threats to security such as terrorism, ethnic rivalries and transnational crime, whilst still exploring the more conventional areas such as war, nuclear weapons and the balance of power. A highly topical account that includes discussion of the 2003 Iraq War, this is the best introductory textbook for students of security studies, strategic studies and international relations. Key content includes:

• defining security and the international political agenda
• military threats from states and non-state actors
• social identity and the economy as threats to security
• environmental and health threats
• terrorism
• natural, man-made and criminal threats
• future of security.

About the Author

Peter Hough is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics and heads up this subject at Middlesex University.