Contemporary security studies /
edited by Alan Collins
- Oxford : Oxford Univ Press, 2007
- xxvii, 444 p.
Security studies is described in the introduction as the primary sub-discipline of international relations, while strategic studies is a sub-field of security studies. This book is arranged in three main sections: approaches to security, deepening and broadening security, and traditional and non-traditional security. There are many well known contributors e.g. Paul Rogers on peace studies, Ralph Emmers on securitization, Eric Herring on military security, Brenda and James Lutz on terrorism, Jeanne Giraldo on transnational crime, James Wirtz on WMD. Every chapter concludes with study questions, further readings and related websites. The related online resource centre includes 4 additional case studies: Iraq War 2003, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and migration, and several learning aids.