Contemporary Security Studies

by Collins, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780199284696
• ISBN10: 0199284695
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This major new textbook brings together key scholars to introduce students to the fast-evolving field of security studies. The book is divided into three sections: differing approaches to the study of security; the broadening and deepening of security; and a range of traditional andnon-traditional issues that have emerged on the security agenda. The study of international security has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War. While war and the threat to use force is part of the security equation it is not exclusively so. Security studies encompasses dangers that range from pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, and environmentaldegradation through to the more readily associated security concerns of direct violence, such as terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. Accessible and easy to use, Contemporary Security Studies is essential reading for all students new to international security.The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.Student resources:Case studies on the Iraq War, Zimbabwe, migration and North KoreaWeb links Multiple Choice QuestionsFlashcard glossaryLecturer resources:PowerPoint slides

Author Biography

Dr Alan Collins is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. xvi
List of Figures	p. xix
List of Tables	p. xx
List of Boxes	p. xxi
Guided Tour of Learning Features	p. xxiv
Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre	p. xxvi
Introduction: What is Security Studies?	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
Definition of security	p. 2
Structure	p. 4
Conclusion	p. 9
Approaches to Security	p. 11
Security in International Politics: Traditional Approaches	p. 13
Introduction: states as central actors	p. 14
The realist perspective	p. 16
Realist disputes	p. 22
Difficulties with realist analysis	p. 24
The liberalist perspective	p. 25
A liberalist age?	p. 29
Liberalist issues	p. 30
Intellectual problems	p. 31
Conclusion	p. 32
Questions	p. 33
Further reading	p. 33
Important websites	p. 34
Peace Studies	p. 35
Introduction	p. 36
Origins and early years	p. 36
Evolution amidst controversy	p. 39
What is peace studies now?	p. 42
Responding to the new security challenges	p. 45
Conclusion	p. 50
Questions	p. 51
Further reading	p. 51
Important websites	p. 52
Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History	p. 53
Introduction: 'Follow the sign of the gourd'	p. 54
Toronto desire: Critical Security Studies	p. 56
Copenhagen distinctions	p. 60
Aberystwyth exclusions	p. 62
Constructing security	p. 65
Everyone's other: post-structuralism and security	p. 67
Conclusion: Contemporary (Critical) Security Studies	p. 71
Questions	p. 72
Further reading	p. 72
Important websites	p. 74
Gender and Security	p. 75
Introduction	p. 76
Discursive representations	p. 76
Practical contexts	p. 80
Contradictions: biology and security	p. 83
Women as victims	p. 84
Women as peaceable	p. 85
Women as warriors	p. 86
Changing roles: changing perceptions	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 88
Questions	p. 89
Further reading	p. 90
Important websites	p. 90
Human Security	p. 91
Introduction: intellectual and empirical purpose	p. 92
Is human security a valuable analytical and policy framework?	p. 94
Reconciling tensions	p. 98
Human security and state-centric security	p. 100
Utility for practitioners	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 105
Questions	p. 107
Further reading	p. 107
Important websites	p. 108
Securitization	p. 109
Introduction	p. 110
Securitization model	p. 111
Limitations of the securitization model	p. 116
Cases of securitization	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 123
Questions	p. 124
Further reading	p. 124
Important websites	p. 125
Deepening and Broadening Security	p. 127
Military Security	p. 129
Introduction: the scope of the military security agenda	p. 130
Military strategy and military security: traditional security studies	p. 132
Securitization	p. 134
Constructivism	p. 137
Debating Colombia	p. 140
Conclusion: military security, self and world politics	p. 142
Questions	p. 143
Further reading	p. 143
Important websites	p. 144
Regime Security	p. 146
Introduction	p. 147
The weak state insecurity dilemma	p. 149
Security strategies in weak states	p. 153
Explaining insecurity in weak states	p. 157
Conclusion: prospects for the weak state	p. 160
Questions	p. 161
Further reading	p. 162
Important websites	p. 162
Societal Security	p. 164
Introduction	p. 165
A duality of state and societal security	p. 165
Society and societal identity	p. 167
Threats to societal identity	p. 169
Defending societal identity	p. 172
Societal security dilemmas	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 178
Questions	p. 180
Further reading	p. 180
Useful websites	p. 181
Environmental Security	p. 182
Introduction	p. 183
The origins of environmental security	p. 184
Major interpretations of environmental security	p. 188
Environmental change and violent conflict	p. 190
Environmental change and national security	p. 192
Armed forces and the environment	p. 195
Environmental change and human security	p. 197
Environment, or security?	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 200
Questions	p. 201
Further reading	p. 202
Important websites	p. 202
Economic Security	p. 204
Introduction	p. 205
Contemporary thinking on economic security	p. 205
A new conceptual approach to economic security	p. 210
Conclusion	p. 219
Questions	p. 220
Further reading	p. 220
Important websites	p. 221
Traditional and Non-Traditional Security	p. 223
Coercive Diplomacy	p. 225
Introduction	p. 226
What is coercive diplomacy?	p. 227
Theories and requirements for success	p. 229
The challenge of defining success	p. 233
Western use of coercive diplomacy 1990-2005	p. 235
Why coercive diplomacy is hard	p. 236
Conclusion	p. 245
Questions	p. 246
Further reading	p. 246
Important websites	p. 247
The Role of Intelligence in National Security	p. 248
Introduction	p. 249
Definitions and theory of intelligence	p. 250
Intelligence services of different nations	p. 251
Intelligence collection disciplines	p. 253
The intelligence process	p. 255
Intelligence and security since the Second World War	p. 258
Legal and ethical issues involving intelligence	p. 260
Covert action	p. 261
Terrorism, Iraq, and the contemporary security condition	p. 263
Conclusion	p. 265
Questions	p. 268
Further reading	p. 268
Important websites	p. 269
Weapons of Mass Destruction	p. 270
Introduction	p. 271
Nuclear weapons	p. 272
Chemical weapons	p. 277
Biological weapons	p. 281
Conclusion: the future of WMD	p. 286
Questions	p. 287
Further reading	p. 287
Important websites	p. 287
Terrorism	p. 289
Introduction	p. 290
Concepts and definitions	p. 291
Types and causes of terrorism	p. 298
Security measures	p. 303
Conclusion	p. 307
Questions	p. 308
Further reading	p. 308
Important websites	p. 309
The Defence Trade	p. 311
Introduction	p. 312
Explaining the arms dynamic	p. 312
Trends in defence expenditure	p. 316
The content of the contemporary defence trade	p. 325
Conclusion	p. 328
Questions	p. 328
Further reading	p. 329
Important websites	p. 330
HIV/AIDS and Security	p. 331
Introduction	p. 332
The global HIV/AIDS pandemic	p. 332
HIV/AIDS and human security	p. 334
HIV/AIDS and national security	p. 336
HIV/AIDS and international security	p. 340
Conclusion	p. 343
Questions	p. 344
Further reading	p. 344
Important websites	p. 345
Transnational Crime	p. 346
Introduction	p. 347
Is transnational crime a threat to national security?	p. 348
Definitions and key concepts	p. 350
The increase in transnational crime	p. 353
The organization of transnational crime: competing visions	p. 356
Transnational crime and terrorism	p. 359
Government responses	p. 361
Conclusion	p. 363
Questions	p. 364
Further reading	p. 365
Important websites	p. 366
Children and War	p. 367
Introduction: children in global politics	p. 368
Which children-whose security?	p. 368
Children as security?	p. 370
Children at war: vulnerable and valuable	p. 371
Young soldiers	p. 373
Post conflict-post children?	p. 377
Infant power and soft tactics	p. 378
Conclusion	p. 380
Questions	p. 381
Further reading	p. 381
Important websites	p. 382
After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies	p. 383
Introduction	p. 384
The origins and institutional structure of security studies	p. 386
Security studies' 'Golden Age'	p. 387
Institutionalization and stagnation	p. 390
Disciplinary questioning and theoretical re-launch	p. 393
Conclusion: the powers of theory and the challenges of the future	p. 399
Questions	p. 400
Further reading	p. 401
Important websites	p. 402
Bibliography	p. 403
Glossary	p. 418
Index	p. 433
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