Understanding New Security Threats - 9781138104723

Taylor & Francis

Understanding New Security ThreatsAuthor(s): Michel Gueldry, Gigi Gokcek, Lui Hebron\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138104723, 978-1138104723\nSynopsis\nThis textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors. \n\nProposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues of threats to state and national territory, this new textbook rests on the following premises: \n\ntraditional state-centered threats, such as nuclear proliferation and espionage, remain a concern; \n\nold and new threats combine and create interlocking puzzlesa feature of wicked problems and wicked messes; \n\nbecause of the global erosion of borders, new developments of unconventional insecurity interact in ways that frustrate traditional conceptual definitions, conceptual maps, and national policies; \n\n.