The Oxford Handbook of International Security

by Gheciu, Alexandra; Wohlforth, William C.

• ISBN13: 9780198854623
• ISBN10: 0198854625
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191083587
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-08-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This Oxford Handbook is the definitive volume on the state of international security and the academic field of security studies. It provides a tour of the most innovative and exciting news areas of research as well as major developments in established lines of inquiry. It presents a comprehensive portrait of an exciting field, with a distinctively forward-looking theme, focusing on the question: what does it mean to think about the future of international security?

The key assumption underpinning this volume is that all scholarly claims about international security, both normative and positive, have implications for the future. By examining international security to extract implications for the future, the volume provides clarity about the real meaning and practical implications for those involved in this field. Yet, contributions to this volume are not exclusively forecasts or prognostications, and the volume reflects the fact that, within the field of security studies, there are diverse views on how to think about the future. Readers will find in this volume some of the most influential mainstream (positivist) voices in the field of international security as well as some of the best known scholars representing various branches of critical thinking about security. The topics covered in the Handbook range from conventional international security themes such as arms control, alliances and Great Power politics, to "new security" issues such as global health, the roles of non-state actors, cyber-security, and the power of visual representations in international security.

The Oxford Handbooks of International Relations is a twelve-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and innovative engagements with the principal sub-fields of International Relations.

The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Christian Reus-Smit of the University of Queensland and Duncan Snidal of the University of Oxford, with each volume edited by specialists in the field. The series both surveys the broad terrain of International Relations scholarship and reshapes it, pushing each sub-field in challenging new directions. Following the example of Reus-Smit and Snidal's original Oxford Handbook of International Relations, each volume is organized around a strong central thematic by scholars drawn from different perspectives, reading its sub-field in an entirely new way, and pushing scholarship in challenging new directions.

Author Biography

Alexandra Gheciu, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa,William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Alexandra Gheciu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Associate Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in the fields of international security, international institutions, Euro-Atlantic relations, global governance, state (re)building, and International Relations theory. Her publciations include The Return of the Public in Global Governance (co-edited with Jacqueline Best, Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Securing Civilization (Oxford University Press, 2008).


William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth. He is the author or editor of eight books and some 60 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the Cold War and its end to unipolarity and contemporary U.S. grand strategy. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and has served as a consultant for the National Intelligence Council and the National Bureau of Asian Research. His most recent book, with Stephen Brooks, is America Abroad The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1. The Future of Security Studies, Alexandra Gheciu and William C. Wohlforth
2. Security and 'Security Studies': ": Conceptual Evolution and Historical Transformation, Keith Krause and Michael C. Williams
3. Expertise and Practice: The Evolving Relationship between Study and Practice of Security, Iver Neumann and Ole Jacob Sending
Part II: Approaches to International Security
A. Schools of Thought
4. Feminist Security and Security Studies, Laura Sjoberg
5. Critical Security Studies, Chris Hendershot and David Mutimer
6. Realisms, Adam Quinn
7. Constructivisms, Michael Barnett
8. Liberal Approaches, John M. Owen IV
9. What is a PARIS Approach to (In)securitisation? Political Anthropological Research for International Sociology, Didier Bigo and Emma Mc Cluskey
B. Methods: Methodological Implications of Thinking about the Future of International Security from Different Perspectives
10. Statistics and International Security, Adam Lauretig and Bear Braumoeller
11. Methods in Constructivist Approaches, Jeff Checkel
12. Methods in Critical Security Studies, Mark Salter and Can Mutlu
13. Game Theory and the Future of International Security, Andrew Kydd
14. Biology, Evolution, and International Security, Rose McDermott and Peter Hatemi
Part III: Major Issues for 21st Century Security
15. Systemic Theory and the Future of Great Power War and Peace, Dale C. Copeland
16. Trends in Conflict: What Do We Know and What Can We Know?, Aaron Clauset and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
17. Leaders, Leadership, and International Security, Michael Horowitz
18. The Politics of National Security, Ron Krebs
19. Religion and International Security, Dan Philpott
20. The Future of International Security Norms, Leslie Vinjamuri
21. Economics of War and Peace, Jonathan D. Caverley
22. The Changing Geography of Global Security, Fiona Adamson
23. The Great Debate: The Nuclear-Political Question and World Order, 1945-2015, Daniel Deudney
24. Public/Private Interactions and Practices of Security, Deborah Avant and Virginia Haufler
25. Nuclear Proliferation: the Risks of Prediction, Etel Solingen
Part IV. Challenges and Opportunities for 21st Century Security
26. The Global South and International Security, Rita Abrahamsen and Adam Sandor Abrahamsen and Adam Sandor
27. Arms Control, Jennifer Erickson
28. Nationalism and International Security, Brendan O' Leary and Nicholas Sambanis
29. Energy Security, Thierry Bros
30. Migration, Audie Klotz
31. Humanitarian Intervention, Jennifer M. Welsh
32. Environmental Security, Joshua Busby
33. The Crime Scene: What Lessons for International Security?, Anja Jakobi
34. Terrorism, Audrey Kurth Cronin
35. Intelligence and International Politics, Robert Jervis
36. Trajectories for Future Cyber Security Research, Ronald Deibert
37. Counter-Insurgency, Austin Long
38. International Security and Development, Necla Tschirgi
39. Drone Proliferation in the 21st Century, Sarah Kreps, Matthew Fuhrmann, and Michael Horowitz
40. Images and International Security, Lene Hansen
41. Maritime Security, Sarah Percy
42. Global Health and Security, Susan Peterson
Part V: 21st Century International Security Actors
43. Great Powers, Barry Buzan
44. Alliances, Sten Rynning and Olivier Schmitt
45. The UN Security Council, Ian Hurd
46. Regional Security Complexes and Organizations, Matteo Legrenzi and Fred H. Lawson
47. International Criminal Accountability and Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANs), Hans Peter Schmitz
48. Civil-Military Relations, Lindsay Cohn, Damon Coletta, and Peter Feaver