Routledge Critical Security Studies
Banks as Security Actors: Countering Terrorist Financing at the Human-Technology Interface
1st Edition
By Esmé Bosma
April 22, 2025
This book analyses how banks implement counter-terrorist financing measures and experiment with technologies to assess risks and make security decisions. Banks have become private security actors. As “gatekeepers” of the financial system, they are legally obliged to conduct customer research and ...
Researching Non-state Actors in International Security: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Kruck, Andrea Schneiker
January 23, 2019
This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security. All researchers face the same challenge, not only must they identify a suitable method for analysing their research...
Environmental Security in the Anthropocene: Assessing Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Judith Nora Hardt
September 28, 2017
This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene. The work analyses the intellectual foundations, the evolution and different interpretations, strengths and potential of the link between environment and security, but ...
US Domestic and International Regimes of Security: Pacifying the Globe, Securing the Homeland
1st Edition
By Markus Kienscherf
May 25, 2017
This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'. The dream of liberal world peace after the Cold War is on the verge of collapsing into permanent global pacification – not only in ...
(In)Security and the Production of International Relations: The Politics of Securitisation in Europe
1st Edition
By Jonas Hagmann
October 10, 2016
This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations. What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats? ...
Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonna Nyman, Anthony Burke
March 01, 2016
At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies. In this volume, working from a diverse range of perspectives—poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism, just ...
Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: 'Caring' for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus
1st Edition
By Volha Piotukh
April 14, 2015
This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault's theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful interpretation of the policies and practices associated with ‘new humanitarianism in general, as well as ...
Ethics and Global Security: A cosmopolitan approach
1st Edition
By Anthony Burke, Katrina Lee-Koo, Matt McDonald
July 07, 2014
This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security. Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to global security, from the death camps, ...
Human Security as Statecraft: Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences
1st Edition
By Nik Hynek
October 25, 2013
This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has ...
Securitization and the Iraq War: The rules of engagement in world politics
1st Edition
By Faye Donnelly
August 08, 2013
This book critiques the conceptualization of security found in mainstream and critical theoretical debates, and applies this to the empirical case of the 2003 Iraq War. The Iraq War represents one of the most puzzling, complex, and controversial events in the post-Cold War era. The manner in which...
Reimagining War in the 21st Century: From Clausewitz to Network-Centric Warfare
1st Edition
By Manabrata Guha
July 26, 2013
This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'. In light of the emerging theories and doctrines of Network-Centric War (NCW), this book traces the philosophical ...
Critique, Security and Power: The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches
1st Edition
By Tara McCormack
May 31, 2013
This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations. In general, 'critical security' ...