Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century

Part I. Explaining Security

1. Security and Ideology
Rasmus Ugilt

2. Who Really Defines National Security?
Lawrence Davidson

3. Anachronistic Research in International Relations and Security Studies
Jaap H. Wilde

4. The American Nuclear Warfare State
Carl Boggs

Part II. Facing and Fighting Threats

5. A New Frontier in US National Security Policymaking: State and Local Governments
Louise Stanton

6. Imperial Hubris and the Security of the Middle East, 1979–2016
James E. Jennings

7. Sovereignty and Security: 9/11, the Arab Spring, and ISIS
Edwin Daniel Jacob

8. Protection from Whom? Tensions, Contradictions, and Potential in the Responsibility to Protect
Douglas Irvin-Erickson

Part III. Cosmopolitan Visions

9. Fostering Global Security
Amentahru Wahlrab

10. Mainstreaming Atrocity
Kjell Anderson

11. Democracy and Stability? US Foreign Policy Post-Arab Spring
Dalia Fahmy

Part IV. Emergent Threats

12. Human Mobility and Security
Alexandria J. Innes

13. Ecological Security
Peter Hough

14. Legality of the Modern Modes of Warfare: The Case of Drones
Ashutosh Misra

15. Duties to Defend: Ethical Challenges of Cyber-Defense
Adam Henschke

Part V. New Horizons

16. State Security, Human Security, and the Problem of Complementarity
Richard E. Rubenstein

17. Victim Mentality and Violence: Anatomy of a Relationship
Jean-Marc Coicaud

18. Rethinking Security Education
Katherine Worboys Izsak

19. Neoconservatism: A Death Prematurely Foretold?
Michael McKoy

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Foreign Policy, US Politics, Military and Defence Studies, Conflict Studies