Critical Security Books

New and Published Books

1. Organizational Resilience

   Managing the Risks of Disruptive Events - A Practitioner’s Guide

   By James J. Leflar, Marc H. Siegel

   Moving towards resiliency is more than just implanting policy and procedure; it is a process that takes organizations on a winding path requiring patience and tolerance. A good deal of learning will have to take place during the trip and that is why it is necessary to have patience and tolerate the...

   Published May 19th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Transnational Companies and Security Governance

   Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World

   By Jana Hönke

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines non-state governance in areas of limited statehood by looking at the security practices of multinational companies. It investigates the everyday security practices of mining companies in Subsaharan Africa to illustrate a much broader and highly relevant phenomenon: hybrid...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. New Norms and Knowledge in World Politics

   Protecting people, intellectual property and the environment

   By Preslava Stoeva

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book examines the process of norm development and knowledge creation in international politics, and assesses these processes in case studies on protection from torture, intellectual property rights and climate change. Drawing on the theories of constructivism and the sociology of scientific...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Democracy and Violence

   Global Debates and Local Challenges

   Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

   Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Critical Infrastructure

   Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Third Edition

   By Robert S. Radvanovsky, Allan McDougall

   Since the initial inception of this book, there have been significant strides to safeguard the operations of our world’s infrastructures. In recent years, there has also been a shift to more fluid postures associated with resilience and the establishment of redundant infrastructure. In keeping with...

   Published April 10th 2013 by CRC Press
6. Joy and International Relations

   A New Methodology

   By Elina Penttinen

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Commercialising Security in Europe

   Political Consequences for Peace Operations

   Edited by Anna Leander

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines the political consequences of European security commercialisation through increased reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs). The role of commercial security in the domestic setting in Europe is widely acknowledged; after all, the biggest private security...

   Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Protest and US Foreign Policy

   Performative Construction of the War on Terror

   By Cami Rowe

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates. The moment of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been much cited in political and cultural scholarship and much attention has been paid to the promotion of "War on...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Fukushima 2011 Disaster

   By Ronald Eisler

   On March 11,2011, Japan experienced the largest earthquake in its history, causing massive property damage. This book summarizes and critically analyzes the natural events and human shortcomings responsible for the failure of the Fukushima reactors during the first year following the accident, and...

   Published December 14th 2012 by CRC Press
10. Critical Approaches to Security

    An Introduction to Theories and Methods

    Edited by Laura J. Shepherd

    Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques. With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge