This Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical
reflection and empirical research by a group of leading
international scholars relating to recent transformations in the
field of security studies. In today's globalized setting, the
challenge of maintaining security is no longer limited to the
traditional foreign-policy and military tools of the nation-state,
and we face a wide range of security threats. Since the late 1980s,
a flurry of research and scholarship has brought forth a new range
of theoretical positions and methodologies for studying security,
focusing on issues such as information technology, biological and
chemical warfare, resource conflicts, pandemics, mass migrations,
transnational terrorism, and environmental dangers. This Handbook
represents a critical stock-taking of the evolution of security
studies, a reflection on the new security thinking, and a critical
review of its premises and ambitions, its politics, and its
continuities and discontinuities with what remains of the Cold War
security studies tradition. The contributors discuss and evaluate
the critical shifts in security studies along four key axes: * Part
I: New Security Concepts * Part II: New Security Subjects * Part
III: New Security Objects * Part IV: New Security Practices
Offering a comprehensive theoretical and empirical overview of this
evolving field, this book is now available in paperback and will be
essential reading for all students of critical security studies,
human security, international/global security, political theory and
IR in general J. Peter Burgess is Research Professor at PRIO, the
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, where he leads the
Security Programme and edits the interdisciplinary journal Security
Dialogue. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU), and
Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Brussels.
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