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Global Security in an Age of Crisis

Beschreibung

This book presents a range of analyses across the security spectrum, bringing a deep understanding of core global security challenges into contention with ongoing theoretical debates between critical and traditional approaches. Chapters analyse the evolving and shifting dynamics of geopolitics, prolonged armed conflicts, large-scale public health emergencies, and economic fractures. Additionally, authors discuss climate shocks, deepening social and economic inequity, trends in nationalism and populism, gendered violence, as well as challenges pertaining to cyber insecurity, emerging technologies, nuclear weapons, and global terrorism. The book illustrates these unparalleled circumstances, taken together with the epochal juncture expressed in the global pandemic, have evolved and coalesced to redefine the many complexities and oscillations of global security.

Autor

Cynthia Enloe is a Research Professor at Clark University. She is best known for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. She has also had major impact on the field of feminist political geography, in particular feminist geopolitics. In 2015, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, in conjunction with the academic publisher Taylor & Francis, created the Cynthia Enloe Award "in honour of Cynthia Enloe's pioneering feminist research into international politics and political economy, and her considerable contribution to building a more inclusive feminist scholarly community." Among the most recent of Cynthia's 15 books are Bananas, Beaches and Bases (2014), Globalization and Militarism (2016), and The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy (2017). Cynthia is also the recipient of the Susan Strange Award and the Susan Northcut Award from the International Studies Association. Among her other recognitions are honorary doctorates from University of Iceland, University of Lund and SOAS, University of London. Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Search for Global Security (Rowman Littlefield) and The Obama Administration's Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague (Routledge). Dr Warren is also co-editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press) and Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century (Routledge). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy (IISTP), George Washington University, and Asia-Pacific Fellow at James Martin Center for Non-proliferation, Washington DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 866g
• ISBN-13: 9781399505437
• ISBN-10: 1399505432
• Artikelnr.: 63923662