Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security

Taylor & Francis

Routledge Handbook on Middle East SecurityAuthor(s): Anders Jgerskog, Michael Schulz, Ashok Swain\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138749894, 978-1138749894\nSynopsis\nRoutledge Handbook on Middle East Security provides the first comprehensive look at Middle East security issues that includes both traditional and emerging security threats.\n\nTaking a broad perspective on security, the volume offers both analysis grounded in the hard military and state security discourse but also delves into the soft aspects of security employing a human security perspective. As such the volume addresses imminent challenges to security, such as the ones relating directly to the war in Syria, but also the long-term challenges. The traditional security problems, which are deep-seated, are at risk of being exacerbated also by a lack of focus on emerging vulnerabilities in the region. While taking as a point of departure the prevalen.