Global Security in an Age of Crisis / / Aiden Warren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Warren, Aiden,
• MitwirkendeR: Agisilaou, Vandra Harris,; Agius, Christine,; Bartley, Adam,; Bisley, Nick,; Bloom, Mia,; Cannon, Brendon J.,; Hillas, Alek,; Hunt, Jennifer S.,; James, Paul,; Nguyen, Ngoc,; Phipps, Peter,; Quek, Kaye,; Rossiter, Ash,; Scott, Shirley V.,; Sorrell, Erin M.,; Steff, Reuben,; Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou,; Trombetta, Maria Julia,; Warren, Aiden,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

Confronts the world’s key global security issues and challenges in the twenty-first centuryProvides a comprehensive analysis of core global security challenges of the 21st Century with emphasis on the third decadeTraverses a range of analyses across the spectrum between core global security challenges (environment, WMDS, health, gender, great power politics, etc) with ongoing theoretical debates (critical theoretical approaches, traditional orthodox approaches)Encompasses a diverse range of emerging, middle and senior academics from around the world, covering a multitude of topics in the global security domainProvides a much-needed re-assessment amidst one of the most defining global junctures in 21st Century, if not the last 70 plus yearsThis book presents a range of analyses across the security spectrum, bringing a deep understanding of core global security challenges into contention with ongoing theoretical debates between critical and traditional approaches. Chapters analyse the evolving and shifting dynamics of geopolitics, prolonged armed conflicts, large-scale public health emergencies, and economic fractures. Additionally, authors discuss climate shocks, deepening social and economic inequity, trends in nationalism and populism, gendered violence, as well as challenges pertaining to cyber insecurity, emerging technologies, nuclear weapons, and global terrorism. The book illustrates these unparalleled circumstances, taken together with the epochal juncture expressed in the global pandemic, have evolved and coalesced to redefine the many complexities and oscillations of global security.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Global Security in the Postpandemic Age -- Part I Approaches -- 1 Critical Approaches and Security: Emancipation and Threat Multiplication -- 2 Traditional Approaches and Security: Rethinking Power and Uncertainty -- 3 Globalization and Security: A Great Unsettling -- 4 Great Power Politics and Security: The US-China Balance of Power in Transition -- 5 Gender and Security: Reconceptualizing Risk and Response -- 6 Postcolonialism and Security: Fractured Empires -- 7 Human Security: The Domino Effect of Threats to Everyday Survival, Livelihoods, and Dignity -- 8 Humanitarianism and Security: The Amplification of Crises and Threats -- Part II Issues and Challenges -- 9 Pandemics and Health Security: Risks to Global Stability -- 10 Environmental Security in the Anthropocene -- 11 Global Terrorism and Security: Extremist Groups and Exploiting the Pandemic -- 12 Emerging Technologies and Security: The Abstraction of Conflict -- 13 Cybersecurity: Emerging Threats -- 14 Nuclear Weapons and Security: Nonproliferation and Arms Control under Stress -- 15 Security in the Middle East: Enduring and Emerging Challenges -- 16 The Indo-Pacific and Security: A New Fault Line -- 17 The UN Security Council and Climate Security: Responding to a Multifaceted Threat -- Bibliography -- Index