Full Description
This 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.
Contents
Contributors BiographiesForeword, Cynthia EnloeIntroduction: Global Security in the Pandemic Age, Aiden WarrenPart 1: Approaches Chapter 1: Critical Approaches and Security, Christine AgiusChapter 2: Traditional Approaches and Security, Adam BartleyChapter 3: Globalization and Security, Paul JamesChapter 4: Great Power Politics and Security, Reuben SteffChapter 5: Gender and Security, Kaye QuekChapter 6: Post-Colonialism and Security, Peter PhippsChapter 7: Human Security, Shahrbanou TadjbakhshChapter 8: Humanitarianism and Security, Vandra HarrisPart 2: Issues and ChallengesChapter 9: Pandemics and Health Security, Erin M. SorrellChapter 10: Environmental Security, Maria Julia Trombetta Chapter 11: Global Terrorism and Security, Mia BloomChapter 12: Emerging Technologies and Security, Aiden Warren and Alek HillasChapter 13: Cyber Security, Jennifer HuntChapter 14: Nuclear Weapons and Security, Aiden WarrenChapter 15: The Middle East and Security, Ash Rossiter and Brendon CannonChapter 16: The Indo-Pacific and Security, Nick BisleyChapter 17: The UN and Security, Shirley Scott and Ngoc NguyenBibliography
