Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

This new edition of the Handbook of Security Studies offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The 2nd edition has been substantially updated and features over 20 completely new chapters.

The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. It encompasses issues ranging from pandemics and environmental degradation to more traditional concerns about direct violence, such as those posed by international terrorism and inter-state armed conflict.

A comprehensive volume, comprising articles by both established and up-and-coming scholars, theHandbook of Security Studies identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. The book is divided into four main parts:

Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Security

Part II: Contemporary Security Challenges

Part III: Regional Security Challenges and Conflicts

Part IV: Confronting Security Challenges

This new edition of the Handbook is a benchmark publication with major importance for both current research and the future of the field. It will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations.

Thierry Balzacq is Tocqueville Professor of International Relations at the University of Namur in Belgium. His most recent books includeTheories de la securite (forthcoming), Contesting Security (editor, Routledge, 2014), and Traite de Relations internationales (co-edited with F. Ramel, 2013).

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Lecturer for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the politics of risk and uncertainty in security politics, with a specific focus on cyber-issues. She was co-editor of theRoutledge Handbook of Security Studies (1st edn, 2009), co-editor of Power and Security in the Information Age (2007), and author of Cyber-Security and Threat Politics (Routledge 2007).