Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

Name: Routledge Handbook of Security Studies
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138803930
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The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies is a thoroughly revised and updated edition featuring over twenty new chapters. It offers a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars, addressing the profound changes and emerging challenges in Security Studies over the past two decades.

The volume is structured into four main parts: Theoretical Approaches to Security, Security Challenges, Regional (In)Security, and Security Governance. New topics include organised crime, migration and security, cyber-security, energy security, the Syrian conflict, and resilience, making it a benchmark resource for understanding contemporary security issues worldwide.
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This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students specialising in Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations, offering vital insights into both current research and future directions in the field.

This new edition of the Handbook of Security Studies offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The 2nd edition has been substantially updated throughout and features 23 completely new chapters.

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This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.

The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. This second edition has been significantly updated to address contemporary and emerging security threats with chapters on organised crime, migration and security, cyber-security, energy security, the Syrian conflict and resilience, amongst many others. Comprising articles by both established and up-and-coming scholars, Routledge Handbook of Security Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the key contemporary topics of research and debate in the field of Security Studies.

The volume is divided into four main parts:

• Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Security

• Part II: Security Challenges

• Part III: Regional (In)Security

• Part IV: Security Governance

This new edition of the Handbook is a benchmark publication with major importance for both current research and the future of the field. It will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138803930

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 7 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Thierry Balzacq
Edited by Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1070g

Pages: 480

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About the Author

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of research and teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US Efforts to Secure the Information Age (Routledge, 2008).

Thierry Balzacq is Professor and Tocqueville Chair in International Relations at the University of Namur, Belgium, and Scientific Director at the Institute for Strategic Research at the French Ministry of Defense. His most recent books include Contesting Security (Routledge, 2014), and Traité de Relations Internationales (co-edited with F. Ramel, 2013).