Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 236
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-7525-6 • Hardback • February 2017 • $88.00 • (£60.00)
978-1-4422-7526-3 • Paperback • February 2017 • $36.00 • (£24.95)
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Laura Neack is professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
List of Acronyms
Preface
1 The Elusive Nature of Security
2 National Security
3 Internal Security
4 Unilateral Pursuit of External Security
5 Multilateral and Bilateral Responses to External Security Threats
6 International Security: Multinational Efforts to Achieve Security
7 United Nations Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
8 Human Security
9 Conclusion: Resilience and Imagination
Notes
Index
This is a well-written and convincing read. . . . A good reference work for students, academics, and others working with security issues on a national or international level.
— Naima Mouhleb, Uppsala University
Guided by a provocative and disquieting thesis that national security fails at every level, Neack skillfully analyzes how the international system, especially the United Nations, protects states and the great power state system. This comprehensive treatment—a blend of theory and policy, generalizations and comparative cases—is bound to inform and stimulate.
— Karen A. Mingst, University of Kentucky
"A rare textbook that brings together the insights of a wide range of security theorizing with contemporary events and debates including (but not limited to) the refugee crisis, global terror, and the responsibility to protect."
— Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University, Turkey
Includes historical framework and analysis of current controversial security policies such as the war on terror and preemptive versus preventive war
Explores the changing nature of external and internal security threats, with special attention to terrorism and the transformation of warfare
Explains how the difficulties and failures of United Nations peace and security efforts can be understood by examining how the UN system was built on a state-first security ethic
Discusses recent proposals for the promotion of an international responsibility to protect human beings from violence
Provides extended discussion boxes to illustrate concepts and debates
Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses on national security, international security, strategic studies, terrorism, global problems, and the United Nations
New features
End of chapter discussion questions
Incorporates the latest waves of refugees and terrorists and the national and international responses as examples to illustrate the terms, concepts and policy frameworks that students should learn in a security class