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Peter Hough: Understanding Global Security Peter Hough: Understanding Global Security

Fully ​revised to incorporate recent developments in world politics, the second edition of Understanding Global Security analyzes the variety of ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts – war, deterrence and terrorism – are analyzed alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime, disease, disasters, environmental degredation and human rights abuses to provide a comprehensive survey of how and why people are killed in the contemporary world.

New features to this edition include:

analysis of key international political events of recent years such as the War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the Israeli incursion into Lebanon
recent developments in the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the ‘war against terror’
new data on deaths attributable to global warming and the contribution played by this in ‘securitizing’ the issue on the… (tovább)

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Taylor & Francis, London, 2013
328 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780415688406 · ASIN: 041568840X

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