Routledge New Security Studies
About the Book Series
The aim of this book series is to gather state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research into a core set of volumes that respond vigorously and dynamically to new challenges to security studies scholarship. This is a continuation of the PRIO New Security Studies series. More information can be found at: https://www.routledge.com/PRIO-New-Security-Studies/book-series/PRIONEWSEC.
Chinese Macrosecuritization: China's Alignment in Global Security Discourses
1st Edition
By Juha A. Vuori
April 14, 2025
This book provides a holistic picture of Chinese global security discourses, with a focus on macrosecuritizations. The work examines how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has aligned itself within global security discourses. This is approached through the theory of securitization, specifically ...
Reconceptualizing Securitization in Afghanistan: Ethnicity, Social Identity, and Higher Education post-2001
1st Edition
By Arif Sahar, Christian Kaunert
December 09, 2024
This book analyses the securitization of ethnic identities and social groups by the state in Afghanistan in the post-2001 context. Securitization is arguably the most successful theoretical framework to analyse security beyond the military confines. Yet, despite its broadening agenda, the ...
Standardization and Risk Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Odd Einar Olsen, Kirsten Juhl, Preben H. Lindøe, Ole Andreas Engen
October 14, 2024
This multi-disciplinary book conceptualizes, maps, and analyses ongoing standardization processes of risk issues across various sectors, processes, and practices.Standards are not only technical specifications and guidelines to support efficient risk governance, but also contain social, political, ...
Nordic Societal Security: Convergence and Divergence
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Larsson, Mark Rhinard
October 04, 2024
This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security. Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption ...
The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order: An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention
1st Edition
Edited
By Heidi Hein-Kircher, Werner Distler
August 26, 2024
The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the "mobility/security nexus" in the re-ordering of states, empires, and markets in historical perspective. Contributing to a vivid academic debate, the book offers in-depth studies on how mobility and security interplay in the ...
Securitization Outside the West: West African Security Reconceptualised
1st Edition
By Christian Kaunert, Edwin Ezeokafor
January 29, 2024
This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to develop an original analytical framework to explain the securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics in West Africa, drawing upon insights from securitization theory, sociology and ...
Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu, J. Peter Burgess
May 31, 2023
This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing. The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses....
The Molecularisation of Security: Medical Countermeasures, Stockpiling and the Governance of Biological Threats
1st Edition
By Christopher Long
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats. In response to biological threats, such as pandemics and bioterrorism, governments around the world have developed a range of new security ...
Translations of Security: A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures
1st Edition
By Trine Villumsen Berling, Ulrik Pram Gad, Karen Lund Petersen, Ole Wæver
May 31, 2023
This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organisational changes, and this book presents a novel approach ...
Crypto-Politics: Encryption and Democratic Practices in the Digital Era
1st Edition
By Linda Monsees
March 31, 2021
This book examines current debates about the politics of technology and the future of democratic practices in the digital era.The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and the USA, during the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks, which revolved around the value of privacy ...
Energy Security Logics in Europe: Threat, Risk or Emancipation?
1st Edition
By Izabela Surwillo
December 18, 2020
This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics.Drawing on the literature on securitization, security logics and security contexts, it scrutinizes energy security debates and policy developments in Germany, Poland and Ukraine, focusing on the pipeline ...
Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society: Refining Privacy Impact Assessment
1st Edition
By Stefan Strauß
December 18, 2020
This book offers an analysis of privacy impacts resulting from and reinforced by technology and discusses fundamental risks and challenges of protecting privacy in the digital age.Privacy is among the most endangered "species" in our networked society: personal information is processed for various ...