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Understanding Global Security (Paperback, 4th edition)
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Understanding Global Security (Paperback, 4th edition)
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Fully revised to incorporate recent developments, this fourth
edition of Understanding Global Security analyses the variety of
ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in
contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security
Studies texts: war, deterrence and terrorism, are analysed
alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime,
disease, disasters, environmental degradation and human rights
abuses to provide a comprehensive survey of how and why people are
killed in the contemporary world. This new edition features:
Greater coverage of the evolving theoretical literature on
security, including more analysis of critical theory perspectives
and emerging schools of thought. Reflections on recent developments
in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. New data and cases on
poverty, hunger and depression and greater analysis of the social
and political implications of the prolonged period of stagnation
the global economy has gone through. New content reflecting the
recent resurgence in populist nationalism evident in the election
of Trump in the USA, the UK's exit from the EU and the
authoritarian turn taken in many countries. Analysis of the 2015
Paris climate change treaty and the international responses to
recent pandemics such as Ebola and Zika A new section has been
included on suicide, plugging a gap evident in the earlier
editions. User-friendly and easy to follow, this highly acclaimed
and popular academic textbook is designed to make a complex subject
accessible to all and will continue to be essential reading for
everyone interested in security.
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