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• About the editors and authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Online resources
• Part I Whose security?: History, theories and institutions
• 1 Introducing security studies: An applied introduction
• Chapter overview
• Introduction
• Whose security?
• Theories of (in)security
• Theory and practice of security: A guide to the textbook
• Review questions
• Further reading
• 2 Security: When? Where? From what? Of what? For whom?
• Chapter overview
• Key learning goals
• Security as a question
• Pluralized sources of insecurity
• Pluralized subjects of security
• So who is now to be secured?
• Review questions
• Further readings
• 3 International security
• Chapter overview
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• International as a space where inter-state security dynamics take place
• International as a security referent
• The international as a challenge to security for some
• International as hierarchy amidst anarchy
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• 4 State security
• Chapter overview
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• What is the state?
• The (auto)biographies of the state
• The state and state security in sovereignty cartels
• The state as a security threat
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• 5 Human security
• Chapter overview
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Broadening, deepening and opening security
• Human security in practice
• Three framings of the human as security referent
• Human security for whom? The case of Agnes
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• 6 Security beyond the human
• Chapter overview
• Key learning goals
• Knowledge systems, nonhumans and security
• Nonhuman rights and security
• More-than-human frameworks of security
• Nonhuman security threats and post-humanist thought
• Conclusions
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Part II Security challenges
• 7 War and militarism
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The Yugoslav wars of the 1990s
• Understand: The study of war and militarism
• Respond: Responding to war and militarism
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 8 Genocide and crimes against humanity
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Crimes against humanity and genocide in contemporary global politics
• Understand: Genocide – key concepts
• Respond: Brazil
• Conclusion
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 9 Terrorism
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Race and political violence
• Understand: Terrorism, counterterrorism and supremacism
• Respond: The social and political functions of ‘terrorism’
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 10 The global arms trade and its control
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Arming the war in Yemen
• Understand: Challenging dominant approaches
• Respond: Accountability for arms sales to the Saudi- and UAE-led coalition
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 11 Weapons of mass destruction
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The 2003 US war in Iraq
• Understand: Interrogating the WMD category
• Respond: WMD in the 2003 US war in Iraq
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 12 Street gangs and urban violence
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Street gangs in Haiti
• Understand: What is urban violence? How should we define violent urban actors?
• Respond: Street gangs in Haiti
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 13 Global development
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The problem of conflict-related sexual violence
• Understand: CRSV as a threat to security and development. Centering the ‘human’ and the ‘state’?
• Respond: Mobile courts
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the ‘real’
• 14 Migration
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The simultaneous deep appreciation and demonisation of migrants
• Understand: Foregrounding colonialism, rethinking the ‘safety’ of home, and reflecting on the allure of ‘balance’
• Respond: Striking migrant workers
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 15 Race and security
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The licit life of racism and in/security
• Understand: “What is going on?”:2 Whiteness as property, war, and climate change
• Respond: “We are all in this together”?
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 16 Conflict and gendered violence
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Gendered dimensions of Afghan conflict (2001–2021)
• Understand: Gendered violence and international security
• Respond: Moving forward in Afghanistan and Ukraine
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the ‘real’
• 17 Organised crime
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The maxi-trial Rinascita-Scott and the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, Italy
• Understand: Defining organised crime
• Respond: The maxi-trial Rinascita-Scott and the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, Italy
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 18 Cybersecurity
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Cybersecurity
• Understand: Why is cybersecurity political?
• Understand: National and international cybersecurity
• Understand: Cybersecurity beyond the state
• Understand: Cybersecurity in practice
• Respond: Colonial Pipeline
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 19 Financial crises and security
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Cascading financial and political crises
• Understand: Recurring crises, war economy, and populist politics
• Respond: Global financial crisis and its afterlives
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 20 Climate change
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Climate change, security and the UNSC
• Understand: The climate change–security nexus
• Respond: The UNSC – climate change as a threat multiplier and the progressive climatization of security
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further readings
• Security beyond the real
• 21 Health security
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The rise of health security
• Understand: Emergency and neglect
• Respond: Reclaiming (everyday) health security
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 22 Resource security
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: Food insecurity and the Arab Spring
• Understand: Securing resources
• Respond: Food insecurity and the Arab Spring
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 23 Maritime security
• Key learning goals
• Introduction
• Explore: The context for maritime security
• Understand: The history of the maritime security agenda
• Respond: Governing maritime security through informality
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• 24 Space security
• Key learning goals
• Introduction: Why is space rubbish a security issue?
• Explore: Litter at 15,000 mph
• Understand: Three key lenses for the examination of space debris
• Respond: Voluntary standards and guidelines
• Problem-mapping exercise
• Conclusion
• Review questions
• Further reading
• Security beyond the real
• Glossary
• References
• Index