The Handbook of Global Security Policy

by Kaldor, Mary; Rangelov, Iavor

• ISBN13: 9780470673225
• ISBN10: 0470673222
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-06-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century.

• Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks for violence
• Offers comprehensive coverage framed around key security concepts, risks, policy tools, and global security actors
• Discusses pressing contemporary issues including terrorism, disarmament, genocide, sustainability, international peacekeeping, state-building, natural disasters, energy and food security, climate change, and cyber warfare
• Includes insightful and accessible contributions from around the world aimed at a broad base of scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers

Author Biography

Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. She is the author of many books, including New & Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (2013) and The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of War and Peace (2010). She was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament and of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly.

Iavor Rangelov is Global Security Research Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. He is co-chair of the London Transitional Justice Network and author of Nationalism and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the Balkans and Beyond (2014).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century 1
Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov

Part I Key Concepts 9

1 Global Security 11
Ken Booth

2 Security and Social Critique 31
David Mutimer

3 Gender and Security 51
Natasha Marhia

4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s) 68
Sabine Selchow

5 Human Security 85
Mary Kaldor

Part II Policy Arenas 103

6 Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation 105
Maria Rost Rublee

7 Terrorism and Antiterrorism 126
Ekaterina Stepanova

8 Genocide and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations 145
Martin Shaw

9 Transnational Crime 160
John P. Sullivan

10 Natural Resources and Insecurity 175
Anouk S. Rigterink

11 The Web of Water Security 190
Mark Zeitoun

Part III Policy Tools 209

12 Civilian Protection 211
Sarah Sewall

13 Humanitarian Assistance 232
Henry Radice

14 The Evolution of International Peacekeeping 247
Renata Dwan

15 State-Building, Nation-Building, and Reconstruction 265
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, and David Rampton

16 Strengthening Democratic Governance in the Security Sector: The Unfulfilled Promise of Security Sector Reform 282
Nicole Ball

17 Diplomacy and Mediation 300
Àlvaro de Soto

18 Global Security and International Law 320
Richard Falk

19 Transitional Justice 338
Iavor Rangelov and Ruti Teitel

Part IV Global Security Actors 353

20 Reframing the Use of Force: The European Union as a Security Actor 355
Mary Martin

21 China 371
May-Britt U. Stumbaum and Sun Xuefeng

22 India as a Global Security Actor 388
Jivanta Sch¨ ottli and Markus Pauli

23 Security Agenda in Russia: Academic Concepts, Political Discourses, and Institutional Practices 408
Andrey Makarychev

24 Contextualizing Global Security: The Case of Turkey 426
Aslý C¸ alkývik

25 The United States 446
Adam Quinn

26 Civil Society in Fragile Contexts 463
Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen

27 Protest and Politics: How Peace Movements Shape History 482
David Cortright

28 Corporate Actors 505
Shantanu Chakrabarti

Index 525