Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Explaining Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Security and Ideology

      • Rasmus Ugilt

      Pages 3-18

   3. Who Really Defines National Security?

      • Lawrence Davidson

      Pages 19-28

   4. Anachronistic Research in International Relations and Security Studies

      • Jaap H. de Wilde

      Pages 29-40

   5. The American Nuclear Warfare State

      • Carl Boggs

      Pages 41-58

3. Facing and Fighting Threats

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. A New Frontier in US National Security Policymaking: State and Local Governments

      • Louise Stanton

      Pages 61-76

   3. Imperial Hubris and the Security of the Middle East, 1979–2016

      • James E. Jennings

      Pages 77-91

   4. Sovereignty and Security: 9/11, the Arab Spring, and ISIS

      • Edwin Daniel Jacob

      Pages 93-104

   5. Protection from Whom? Tensions, Contradictions, and Potential in the Responsibility to Protect

      • Douglas Irvin-Erickson

      Pages 105-123

4. Cosmopolitan Visions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Fostering Global Security

      • Amentahru Wahlrab

      Pages 127-141

   3. Mainstreaming Atrocity

      • Kjell Anderson

      Pages 143-156

   4. Democracy and Stability? US Foreign Policy Post-Arab Spring

      • Dalia Fahmy

      Pages 157-166

5. Emergent Threats

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Human Mobility and Security

      • Alexandria J. Innes

      Pages 169-181

   3. Ecological Security

      • Peter Hough

      Pages 183-194

   4. Legality of the Modern Modes of Warfare: The Case of Drones

      • Ashutosh Misra

      Pages 195-208

   5. Duties to Defend: Ethical Challenges of Cyber-Defense

      • Adam Henschke

      Pages 209-222

This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of "security" broadly conceived. A quarter of a century has passed since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Yet our notions of security remain mired in Cold War thinking whose realist ethos is predicated on holding the nation state's power, interests, and survival as the guiding unit of analysis in international relations. Security is ever changing. Confronting new dangers to the individual, the state, and the international order calls for new categories that speak to the new influence of globalization, international institutions, and transnational threats. Composed of original essays by a cosmopolitan mix of leading figures inside and outside the academy, this book proves relevant to any number of classes and courses, and its controversial character makes it all the more necessary and appealing.

• aestheticization of politics
• 9/11
• Arab Spring
• atomic politics
• civil resistance and civil society
• Cold War
• countering violent extremism
• critique of ideology
• imperialism
• geopolitics
• globalization
• hegemony
• state security
• U.S. foreign policy
• defence
• foreign policy
• international relations
• military
• political science
• political violence

• Somerset, USA

  Edwin Daniel Jacob

Edwin Daniel Jacob is a doctoral candidate of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, USA.  He serves as the New Media Coordinator at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. An interdisciplinary background in political theory, international relations, and history informs his focus on American homeland security and foreign policy. 

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