The definitive introduction to security studies, focusing on key theoretical approaches and the critical issues shaping today's global security landscape. Contemporary Security Studies offers a uniquely engaging introduction to Security Studies, addressing key theories and contemporary issues in the field. A team of expert scholars strikes a careful balance between depth and clarity, making it an essential companion for students exploring the modern security agenda.The eBook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: Find the eBook on VitalSource.Key featuresOffers broad, easy-to-digest coverage of the key theories and concepts in Security StudiesBrings together carefully edited contributions from international experts in the field, giving students insights from a range of leading scholars'Think point' boxes challenge students to question their own assumptions, and help to develop critical thinking skillsCase study boxes encourage students to connect theory and practice by demonstrating the real-world manifestations of political issuesIncludes coverage of critical Security Studies perspectives, including poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and post-human.Considers a broad range of traditional and non-traditional security issues, from inter-state armed conflict and nuclear weapons to security issues centring on the environment, crime and cyber-attacksAlso available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning supportNew to this EditionChapter 3 provides a new look on how liberal ideas underpin liberal internationalism and how these ideas have a long history of ordering international politics, but constantly find themselves contested, challenged, and in crisis.A new Chapter 13 on nonhuman security studies introduces students to this innovative approach to Security Studies, explaining the insecurities that arise for some humans, other species and non-sentient beings (rivers, mountains, etc) during the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity is having a fundamental impact on the planet's biosphere.A revised Chapter 15 on military security, tracing the use of force in achieving security, and the management of force, via alliances and arms control, in statecraft.Chapter 22 on terrorism has been reworked to provide in-depth explanation of the challenges of defining terrorism, the complications with counter-terrorism in preventing acts of terrorism from occurring before they happen, and the insights that Critical Terrorism Studies, feminism, and postcolonialism offer.A revised Chapter 24 on energy security, which traces the evolving concept of energy security, revealing the shifting nature of it as a geopolitical concern, and concluding by examining it from an individual rather than state perspective.Digital Formats & ResourcesThe 7th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Politics Trove offer a mobile experiences and convenient access along with multiple choice questions, lecturer power point slides and lectured test bank, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support.

Table of Contents:
1: Alan Collins: Introduction: What is Security Studies?PART 1 Approaches to Security 2: Charles L. Glaser: Realism 3: Trine Flockhart: Liberalism and Liberal Internationalism 4: Eric Herring: Historical Materialism 5: Paul Rogers: Peace Studies 6: Christine Agius: Social Constructivism 7: Stephane Baele and Catarina Thomson: Securitization Theory 8: David Mutimer, with Derek Verbakel: Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History 9: J. Marshall Beier: Critical Security Studies II-Narratives of Security: Other Stories, Other Actors 10:           Caroline Kennedy-Pipe and Sophia Dingli: Gender and Security 11: Mark Laffey and Suthaharan Nadarajah: Postcolonialism 12: Randolph B. Persaud: Human Security 13: Audra Mitchell: Nonhuman Security Studies 14: Galia Press-Barnathan: Popular Culture and SecurityPART 2 Deepening and Broadening Security 15: Tracey German: Military Security 16: Andreas Krieg: Regime Security 17: Paul Roe: Societal Security 18: Geoff Dabelko: Environmental Security 19: Gary M. Shiffman: Economic Security 20: Nana K. Poku and Jacqueline Therkelsen: Globalization, Development, and SecurityPART 3 Traditional and Non-Traditional Security 21: James J. Wirtz: Weapons of Mass Destruction 22: Alice Martini: Terrorism and Counter-terrorism 23: Alex J. Bellamy and Stephen McLoughlin: Humanitarian Intervention 24: Izabela Surwillo and Trine Villumsen Berling: Energy Security 25: Suzette R. Grillot: The Weapons Trade 26: Stefan Elbe and Eva Hilberg: Health and Security 27: Nathan P. Jones: Transnational Crime 28: Myriam Dunn Cavelty: Cyber-Security 29: Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan: Long After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies