The handbook of global security policy
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 comprehensiv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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West Sussex, UK
Wiley Blackwell
2014
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| Series: | Handbook of global policy series
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 6 Nuclear Disarmament and NonproliferationDeconstructing Nonproliferation and Disarmament; Nuclear Nonproliferation; History of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; The Causes of Nuclear Restraint; Restraint, Hedging, or Ambiguity?; Nuclear Disarmament; History of Negotiations for Nuclear Disarmament; Is Disarmament Desirable?; Is Disarmament Achievable?; New Frontiers in Policy and Research; Questioning Deterrence; Norm Entrepreneurs: Promoting Both Disarmament and Proliferation?; The Individual: Future Plains of Research; Comparative Conclusions: Beyond Nuclear Politics; Notes
- The Securitization of Sexual and Gender-Based ViolenceHumanizing Security, Gendering Security?; Gender Narratives and the "War on Terror"; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s); Introduction; The Modern Invention Called "Risk"; Security Policies and the Logic of "Risk'; The Dynamic of the Decoupling of Political Acts from the Grounds of Actuality; The Dynamic of a Depolitization of (Security) Policymaking; The Dynamic of an "Internalization" of (Global) Security Issues and the Process of Responsibilization
- The Dynamic of an Expanding Process of "Securitization'Summary; "Global Risks" and the Imperative to Rethink Modern (Security) Institutions; "Global Risks"; "Risk Society" and "Reflexive Modernity"; Summary; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 5 Human Security; The Evolution of the Concept of Human Security; Origins; The Context; The Barcelona Version of Human Security; The Impact of the War on Terror; The Critiques of Human Security; What it is to be Human; The Meaning of Security; Biopower; Reconstructing Human Security; Notes; References; Part II Policy Arenas
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- The Handbook of Global Security Policy; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century; Structure and Organization of the Book; References; Part I Key Concepts; Chapter 1 Global Security; What is a Global Security Issue? Existential and Emancipatory Threats; "Security"; "Global"; "Global Security Threats"; Where Are We In History? The Paradoxes of Proximity; Where Are We Going? The Evolving Global Securityscape and the Inconvenient Truth of the International; Global Existential Threats; Global Emancipatory Threats
- The Challenge: Can we Escape the "Madness of Sanity"?Global Consciousness; Individual Engagement; Global Identity Formation; Global Institutional Reform; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Security and Social Critique; Security Studies Meets Social Critique; Feminism and the Critique of Violence; United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; After Frankfurt: Security as Emancipation; Zuccotti Park as Security "Policy"; The Radical Promise of Poststructuralism; The Biometric Border; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Gender and Security; State-Centric Security and Gendered Violences