Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-xvi

Foreword: Embarrassment Is Intellectually Useful

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Global Security in the Postpandemic Age

pp 1-20

Part I - Approaches

pp 21-22

1 - Critical Approaches and Security: Emancipation and Threat Multiplication

pp 23-44

2 - Traditional Approaches and Security: Rethinking Power and Uncertainty

pp 45-61

3 - Globalization and Security: A Great Unsettling

pp 62-83

4 - Great Power Politics and Security: The US-China Balance of Power in Transition

pp 84-107

5 - Gender and Security: Reconceptualizing Risk and Response

pp 108-129

6 - Postcolonialism and Security: Fractured Empires

pp 130-151

7 - Human Security: The Domino Effect of Threats to Everyday Survival, Livelihoods, and Dignity

pp 152-173

8 - Humanitarianism and Security: The Amplification of Crises and Threats

pp 174-196

Part II - Issues and Challenges

pp 197-198

9 - Pandemics and Health Security: Risks to Global Stability

pp 199-219

10 - Environmental Security in the Anthropocene

pp 220-243

11 - Global Terrorism and Security: Extremist Groups and Exploiting the Pandemic

pp 244-265

12 - Emerging Technologies and Security: The Abstraction of Conflict

pp 266-289

13 - Cybersecurity: Emerging Threats

pp 290-313

14 - Nuclear Weapons and Security: Nonproliferation and Arms Control under Stress

pp 314-333

15 - Security in the Middle East: Enduring and Emerging Challenges

pp 334-352

16 - The Indo-Pacific and Security: A New Fault Line

pp 353-373

17 - The UN Security Council and Climate Security: Responding to a Multifaceted Threat

pp 374-394

Bibliography

pp 395-463

Index

pp 464-477