TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bourne,Mike
TI  - Understanding security
SN  - 9780230291249 (paperback)
U1  - 355.033 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Security, International
KW  - Human security
N1  - economic&political bookfair2015; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -