New Threats and New Actors in International Security.
Title:
New Threats and New Actors in International Security.
Author:
Krahmann, E.
ISBN:
9781403981660
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Abstracts -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 From State to Non-State Actors: The Emergence of Security Governance -- Part II: Civil War -- 2 The New Conflict Managers: Peacebuilding NGOs and State Agendas -- 3 Humanitarians and Mercenaries: Partners in Security Governance? -- Part III: Terrorism and Transnational Crime -- 4 Drug Traffickers, Terrorist Networks, and Ill-Fated Government Strategies -- 5 Targeting Money Laundering: Global Approach or Diffusion of Authority? -- Part IV: HIV/AIDS -- 6 HIV/AIDS: The International Security Dimensions -- 7 NGOs as Security Actors in the Fight against HIV/AIDS? -- Part V: Small Arms and Light Weapons -- 8 The Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons -- 9 NGOs and the Shaping of the European Controls on Small Arms Exports -- Part VI: Conclusion -- 10 New Threats and New Actors in Security Governance: Developments, Problems, and Solutions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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