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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Draws together regional and subject specialists from around the globe for expert analysis

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Table of contents (294 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. A

    1. 2007–2008 Financial Crisis

      • Nima Mirzaei
      Pages 1-6
    2. Activists and Activism

      • Katie Paulot, Rebecca Shea Irvine
      Pages 7-10
    3. Actors and Stakeholders in Non-traditional Security

      • Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano, Aries A. Arugay
      Pages 10-16
    4. Air Pollution

      • Haniyeh Nowzari
      Pages 16-26
    5. Alcohol Abuse and Addiction

      • David Andrew Omona
      Pages 26-35
    6. Anthropocene

      • Róbert Balogh
      Pages 35-42
    7. Antibiotics

      • Peter Popella
      Pages 42-46
    8. Anti-globalizationists

      • Milica Pejovic
      Pages 46-50
    9. Antimicrobial Resistance

      • Peter Popella
      Pages 50-53
    10. Anti-piracy Cooperation

      • Senia Febrica
      Pages 53-60
    11. Arab Spring

      • Samantha Kruber
      Pages 60-66
    12. Arctic

      • Lora Pitman, Girish Sreevatsan Nandakumar
      Pages 66-74
    13. Army Recruitment of Ethnic Minorities

      • Gordon Alley-Young
      Pages 74-80
    14. Asian Development Bank (ADB)

      • Avilash Roul
      Pages 81-86
    15. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

      • David Morris
      Pages 86-95
    16. Asian Monetary Fund (AMF)

      • Claire Michaela M. Obejas
      Pages 95-98
    17. Assimilation

      • Tuğba Bayar
      Pages 98-101
    18. Authoritarianism

      • Francis Grice
      Pages 101-108
    19. Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS)

      • Anzhelika Solovyeva, Nik Hynek
      Pages 108-114

About this book

This encyclopedia provides an authoritative guide intended for students of all levels of studies, offering multidisciplinary insight and analysis of over 500 headwords covering the main concepts of Security and Non-traditional Security, and their relation to other scholarly fields and aspects of real-world issues in the contemporary geopolitical world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Centre for Policing and Security, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK

    Scott N. Romaniuk

  • Institute for International, Political and Regional Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter N. Marton

About the editors

Scott N. Romaniuk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Security Studies at the China Institute, University of Alberta. He received his PhD in International Studies from the University of Trento. He holds an MRes in Political Research, an MA in Terrorism, Crime and Global Security, and an MA in Military Studies (Joint Warfare). His teaching and research specializations include International Relations, Military and Strategic Studies, Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Research Methods. He is a Senior Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) and a member of the Conflict, Terrorism and Development (CTD) Collaboratory at Michigan State University.  



Péter Marton is Associate Professor at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a PhD in International Relations. His primary research area is Foreign Policy Analysis, and his research focuses on the politics of overseas military operations and international cooperation over burden-sharing. He has published in New Perspectives, the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Defense Studies and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.





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