Global Security in an Age of Crisis

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of core global security challenges of the 21st Century, with emphasis on the third decade. It encompasses a diverse range of emerging, middle, and senior academics from around the world, covering a multitude of topics in the global security domain. The book offers a much-needed re-assessment amidst one of the most defining global junctures in 21st Century, if not the last 70 plus years.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The book "Confronting the World's Key Global Security Issues and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century" is a comprehensive analysis of the core global security challenges of the 21st century, with a particular emphasis on the third decade. It traverses a range of analyses across the spectrum, including core global security challenges such as the environment, weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), health, gender, great power politics, and more. The book encompasses a diverse range of emerging, middle, and senior academics from around the world, covering a multitude of topics in the global security domain.

One of the key strengths of the book is its ability to provide a much-needed re-assessment amidst one of the most defining global junctures in the 21st century, if not the last 70 plus years. The chapters analyze the evolving and shifting dynamics of geopolitics, prolonged armed conflicts, large-scale public health emergencies, and economic fractures. Additionally, authors discuss climate shocks, deepening social and economic inequity, trends in nationalism and populism, gender-based violence, as well as challenges pertaining to cyber insecurity, emerging technologies, nuclear weapons, and global terrorism.

The book illustrates these unparalleled circumstances, taken together with the epochal juncture expressed in the global pandemic, have evolved and coalesced to redefine the many complexities and oscillations of global security. It offers a valuable contribution to the ongoing theoretical debates between critical and traditional approaches to global security, providing a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the world in the 21st century.

Overall, "Confronting the World's Key Global Security Issues and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century" is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complex and interconnected nature of global security in the 21st century. It provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the core challenges facing the world, and offers valuable insights into the ongoing theoretical debates and debates surrounding global security.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399505437