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International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects
Michael E. Smith
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Description for International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects
Paperback. This text introduces the politics of security: how and why issues are interpreted as security threats and how such threats are managed. It now includes an additional chapter on cyber security, but retains the same approach that gives readers the conceptual tools and knowledge of real-world problems required for a systematic approach to the subject. Num Pages: 496 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JPV; JWK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This innovative new text focuses on the politics of international security: how and why issues are interpreted as threats to international security and how such threats are managed. After a brief introduction to the field and its major theories and approaches, the core chapters systematically analyze the major issues on the contemporary international security agenda. Each is examined according to a common framework that brings out the nature of the threat and the responses open to policy makers. From war, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, through environmental and economic crises, to epidemics, cyber-war and piracy, the ... Read more
This innovative new text focuses on the politics of international security: how and why issues are interpreted as threats to international security and how such threats are managed. After a brief introduction to the field and its major theories and approaches, the core chapters systematically analyze the major issues on the contemporary international security agenda. Each is examined according to a common framework that brings out the nature of the threat and the responses open to policy makers. From war, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, through environmental and economic crises, to epidemics, cyber-war and piracy, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137582928
SKU
V9781137582928
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Ref
99-2
About Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith is Professor of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He has previously held posts at St Andrews, UK and at Georgia State University, USA. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of European Public Policy and European Security.
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