Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. This second edition has been significantly updated to address contemporary and emerging security threats with chapters on organised crime, migration and security, cyber-security, energy security, the Syrian conflict and resilience, amongst many others. Comprising articles by both established and up-and-coming scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the key contemporary topics of research and debate in the field of Security Studies. The volume is divided into four main parts: • Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Security • Part II: Security Challenges • Part III: Regional (In)Security • Part IV: Security Governance This new edition of the Handbook is a benchmark publication with major importance for both current research and the future of the field. It will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Thierry Balzacq and Myriam Dunn Cavelty Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Security 1. Realism and Security Studies, William C. Wohlforth 2. Liberalism: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment, Thomas C. Walker and David L. Rousseau 3. International Political Economy and Security, Heikki Patomäki 4. The English School and International Security, Barry Buzan 5. Critical Security Studies, David Mutimer 6. Constructivism and Securitization Studies, Juha Vuori 7. Poststructuralist Approaches to Security, Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster 8. Feminist Security Studies, Annick T.R. Wibben 9. Postcolonialism: Interrogating National Security and Drone Warfare, Sheila Nair 10. Human Security: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan, Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv 11. Risk and Security, Karen Lund Petersen 12. Security as Practice, Christian Bueger Part II: Security Challenges 13. Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Oldrich Bures 14. Organised Crime , Adam Edwards 15. Migration and Security, Jef Huysmans and Vicki Squire 16. Cyber-Security, Ronald Deibert 17. War, Christopher Coker 18. Ethnic and Religious Violence, Delphine Alles 19. Energy Security, Robert W. Orttung 20. Resources, the Environment, and Conflict, Nils Petter Gleditsch and Ole Magnus Theisen 21. Pandemics and Global Health, Simon Rushton and Sonja Kittelsen Part III: Regional (In)Security 22. China’s Rise: Counterproductive Fearmongering, Jiun Bang and David C. Kang 23. Indian Security Policy, Sumit Ganguly 24. Afghanistan: A State in Limbo, Amin Saikal 25. Iran, Rouzbeh Parsi 26. Intervention in Iraq: From Regime Change to De Facto Partition, Gareth Stansfield 27. The Syrian Crisis and International Security, Raymond Hinnebusch 28. Israel-Palestine: An Archipelago of (In)Security, Nada Ghandour-Demiri 29. Analysing Drug Violence in Mexico, Kimberly Heinle, Octavio Rodríguez and David A. Shirk 30. Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pierre Englebert 31. Russia’s Revival, Jeffrey Mankoff Part IV: Security Governance 32. Alliances, Carlo Masala and Alessandro Scheffler Corvaja 33. International Sanctions, Olivier Schmitt 34. Deterrence, Richard Ned Lebow 35. Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Wilfred Wan 36. Public Diplomacy in a National Security Context, Nancy Snow 37. Statebuilding, Tobias Debiel and Patricia Rinck 38. Humanitarian Intervention, Aidan Hehir 39. Global Security Governance, Thomas J. Biersteker 40. Resilience, David Chandler 41. The Study of Crisis Management, Arjen Boin, Magnus Ekengren and Mark Rhinard 42. ‘Killer Robots’ and Preventive Arms Control, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer and Thierry Balzacq

About the Author :
Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of research and teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US Efforts to Secure the Information Age (Routledge, 2008). Thierry Balzacq is Professor and Tocqueville Chair in International Relations at the University of Namur, Belgium, and Scientific Director at the Institute for Strategic Research at the French Ministry of Defense. His most recent books include Contesting Security (Routledge, 2014), and Traité de Relations Internationales (co-edited with F. Ramel, 2013).

Review :
‘Overall, this is the best available introduction to the field for graduate students, academics, and practitioners. Highly Recommended.’ -- CHOICE review of the first edition