If you have $200 burning a whole in your pocket, I have a chapter in what aside from the price, is a great new edited volume, put together by my friend (and at various times boss), Peter Burgess. It’s the first in a new Routledge series on New Security Studies, and has a couple of dozen definitional chapters on a host of broadened security concepts. I did the one on Human Security. Book abstract is below. Anyways, worth checking out, perhaps at the library…

The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies

This new Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research by a group of leading international scholars in the subdiscipline of Critical Security Studies.

In today’s globalised setting, the challenge of maintaining security is no longer limited to the traditional foreign-policy and military tools of the nation-state, and security and insecurity are no longer considered as dependent only upon geopolitics and military strength, but rather are also seen to depend upon social, economic, environmental, ethical models of analysis and tools of action. The contributors discuss and evaluate this fundamental shift in four key areas:

I. New security concepts
II. New security subjects
III. New security objects
IV. New security practices

Offering a comprehensive theoretical and empirical overview of this evolving field, this book will be essential reading for all students of critical security studies, human security, international/global security, political theory and IR in general.

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