Understanding Emerging Security Challenges - Threats and Opportunities

Informationen zum Autor Ashok Swain is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also serves as the Director of the Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development. He has written extensively on emerging security challenges, international water sharing and migration issues, and democratic development. Klappentext This volume offers an overview of the various new security challenges that have emerged in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. It aims to familiarise readers with the emerging theories and themes in international security studies. Zusammenfassung This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Emerging Security Challenges in a Changing World 2. Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Environmental Security 3. Water Wars: Conflicts of the Twenty-First Century? 4. Protecting the Forest: Promoting Peace or Conflict? 5. Achieving Food Security: A Growing Challenge 6. Health and Security: Special Focus on HIV/AIDS 7. Migration and Conflict: The Complex Linkage 8. Conclusion: Encountering Emerging Security Challenges

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ashok Swain, Ashok (Uppsala University Swain, Swain Ashok
• Verlag: Routledge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.07.2012
• EAN: 9780415523301
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52330-1
• Abmessung: 164 mm x 241 mm x 17 mm
• Serien: Contemporary Security Studies; Contemporary Security Studies
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Warfare & defence, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict