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Regulating Global Security

Insights from Conventional and Unconventional Regimes

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  • © 2019

Overview

  • Draws from several generations of regime theory with a particular emphasis on key constitutive effects of the productive power
  • Divides cases into regime ‘clusters’: WMDs (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons), humanitarian cluster (SALWs, APLs, CMs) and a ‘unconventional’ cluster (drugs, cyber weapons)
  • Expands the reach beyond weapons while maintaining the focus on the realm of global security

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

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About this book

​This edited collection presents an innovative approach to global security regimes. Employing both conceptual and empirical studies, the volume examines three empirically-oriented sets of cases: weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian disarmament and unconventional threats. The book combines interrogations of the most prominent prohibition/regulatory regimes while covering WMDs, humanitarian issues and other agendas such as drugs, endangered species and cyber security. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in International Relations and Security Studies.

Reviews

“A timely and sophisticated revisiting of regime theory that brings together diverse cases of contemporary security regimes, ranging from nuclear proliferation to drug prohibition and wildlife trafficking under a rich and common analytic framework.” (Keith Krause, Professor, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland)

“Global prohibition regimes can play a pivotal role in enhancing, and sometimes undermining, both national and international security.  This fine volume offers deep analytical and comparative insights into the limits and potential of such regimes.” (Ethan Nadelmann, Founder and former Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Metropolitan University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Nik Hynek

  • Institute of International Relations Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Ondrej Ditrych

  • Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vit Stritecky

About the editors

Nik Hynek is Associate Professor in Theory of Politics and Chair of the Department of Security Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic.

Ondrej Ditrych is Director of Institute of International Relations Prague and academic fellow at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Vit Stritecky is Assistant Professor in Security Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.


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