Routledge Critical Security Studies
Non-Traditional Security in the Middle East and North Africa: Theories, Themes and Solutions
1st Edition
By Joshua Snider
April 22, 2026
This book offers explores how non-traditional security (NTS) issues are reshaping the political and strategic landscape in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Moving beyond conventional state-centric and militarised approaches, the book analyses how environmental stress, food and water ...
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 ...
Securitization Revisited: Contemporary Applications and Insights
1st Edition
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By Michael J. Butler
March 31, 2021
This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become ‘securitized’ and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are. A generation after the introduction of the concept of securitization to the security studies field, this book engages with how securitization and ...
Securing Health: HIV and the Limits of Securitization
1st Edition
By Suzanne Hindmarch
June 30, 2020
This book offers a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease as a security issue. In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly ‘low’ politics of global health meet the ‘high’ politics of security, and when the logic of security comes to shape...
Researching Non-state Actors in International Security: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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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
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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 ...