Book description
This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century.
Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks for violence
Offers comprehensive coverage framed around key security concepts, risks, policy tools, and global security actors
Discusses pressing contemporary issues including terrorism, disarmament, genocide, sustainability, international peacekeeping, state-building, natural disasters, energy and food security, climate change, and cyber warfare
Includes insightful and accessible contributions from around the world aimed at a broad base of scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers
Table of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century
- Part I Key Concepts
- Part II Policy Arenas
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Part III Policy Tools
- Chapter 12 Civilian Protection
- Chapter 13 Humanitarian Assistance
- Chapter 14 The Evolution of International Peacekeeping
- Chapter 15 State-Building, Nation-Building, and Reconstruction
- Chapter 16 Strengthening Democratic Governance in the Security Sector: The Unfulfilled Promise of Security Sector Reform
- Chapter 17 Diplomacy and Mediation
- Chapter 18 Global Security and International Law
- Chapter 19 Transitional Justice
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Part IV Global Security Actors
- Chapter 20 Reframing the Use of Force: The European Union as a Security Actor
- Chapter 21 China
- Chapter 22 India as a Global Security Actor
- Chapter 23 Security Agenda in Russia: Academic Concepts, Political Discourses, and Institutional Practices
- Chapter 24 Contextualizing Global Security: The Case of Turkey
- Chapter 25 The United States
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Chapter 26 Civil Society in Fragile Contexts1
- Introduction
- Strengthening Civil Society, What Is It All About?
- Hybrid Providers of Development in “Fragile States”5
- Agents of Peace and Democratization?
- Legitimacy and “Civilness”
- Global Connections and Difficulties of Outside Support
- Case Study – Strengthening “Agents of Change” in Ituri7
- Identifying Peace-Minded Partners
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 27 Protest and Politics: How Peace Movements Shape History
- Chapter 28 Corporate Actors
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: The Handbook of Global Security Policy
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9780470673225
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