Global Security in an Age of Crisis
Edited by Aiden Warren
Foreword by Cynthia Enloe
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of core global security challenges of the 21st Century with emphasis on the third decade
- Traverses 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 domain
- Provides a much-needed re-assessment amidst one of the most defining global junctures in 21st Century, if not the last 70 plus years
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.
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
This impressive collection is a timely re-examination of key global security challenges. It is a thoughtful, clear, comprehensive and highly engaging analysis of contemporary trends, issues and approaches to everyday and international security. With its accomplished and exciting list of contributors and topics, this volume is essential reading for every student and practitioner working in the fields of peace, conflict and security, and for anyone seeking to better understand today’s complex security environment.
This collection offers a fresh and inclusive look at global security challenges, featuring insightful analytical and empirical investigations written from diverse critical and traditional vantage points. The contributions are essential reading for those trying to track and understand the trajectories of diverse global security issues.
Global Security lives up to its title. It is a remarkably wide-ranging collection that comprehensively surveys theories of security, from the classical canon to the latest approaches. It explores both the traditional issues of great power and nuclear security and the most pressing challenges to the planet revealed by virulent pandemics, stressed environments and disruptive technologies. This a most welcome introduction to dangers of our times.
For those seeking a comprehensive and erudite examination of the expanding range of global security approaches, issues and challenges confronting societies in the 2020s, look no further than this volume. Combining both traditional and critical approaches and a diverse range of voices, this volume shows that the global coronavirus pandemic is not only a significant new challenge in an already crowded security agenda. The weak collective response to the pandemic has also exposed the structural injustices and frailties of the contemporary global order.
