The Handbook of Global Security Policy - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0470673222 ISBN 13 : 9780470673225

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470673222
• ISBN 13: 9780470673225
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Éditeur: Kaldor Mary, Rangelov Iavor
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible