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Understanding security / Mike Bourne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: vi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230291249 (paperback)
  • 0230291244 (paperback)
  • 9780230291232 (hardback)
  • 0230291236 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 355.033 B.M.U
Contents:
Introduction: What is Security? -- Understanding and Theorizing security -- Traditional rationalist approaches to security -- Critical approaches and new frameworks -- The Sovereign state and internal security -- Acting under uncertainty: the security dilemma, strategy and risk -- Global and regional security formations -- War and killing -- Arms trade, arms control and disarmament -- Human security -- Weak states and intervention -- Terrorism and Counterterrorism -- Migration, crime and borders -- Environmental, energy and resource security -- Conclusion.
Summary: "This broad-ranging new text introduces a wide range of theoretical perspectives with a central focus on their application to understanding key issues in global, state and human security in the contemporary world."--Publisher's website.
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Books Books Main library A6 Faculty of Economics & Political (Political) 355.033 B.M.U (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00012212

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-339) and index.

Introduction: What is Security? -- Understanding and Theorizing security -- Traditional rationalist approaches to security -- Critical approaches and new frameworks -- The Sovereign state and internal security -- Acting under uncertainty: the security dilemma, strategy and risk -- Global and regional security formations -- War and killing -- Arms trade, arms control and disarmament -- Human security -- Weak states and intervention -- Terrorism and Counterterrorism -- Migration, crime and borders -- Environmental, energy and resource security -- Conclusion.

"This broad-ranging new text introduces a wide range of theoretical perspectives with a central focus on their application to understanding key issues in global, state and human security in the contemporary world."--Publisher's website.

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