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Neack provides a thorough overview of how states pursue security against violence, how this pursuit puts those same states and others in the international system into more or less constant threat of violence, and the implications of state-security practices for human beings who are, always, the victims of this violence.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Elusive Nature of Security
A First Case: China and the Uyghurs
Elusive Security: States First, People Last
What Does It Mean To Be Secure?
Defining Security
A Second Case: Australia and the Afghan Boat People
States First, International Obligations Second
National, International, and Human Security
Chapter 2. National Security
What is Security?
National Security: States, Not Nations
The Sovereign State
What Sovereignty Allows
Limits on Internal and External Security Practices
States Resurgent
Chapter 3. Internal Security
Defining Internal Security
Who is the State?
What is the Purpose of the State?
All States Tend Toward Maximalism When Threatened
Signs of Trouble
Chapter 4. The Unilateral Pursuit of External Security
The Security Dilemma
Defense and Deterrence
Preemptive Self-Defense
Preventive Force
Gray Zone and Hybrid Conflict
Preventive War
Chapter 5. International Security
International Security and Order
The Liberal International Security System
The Great Power Balance-of-Power International Security System
Competing Orders: The United States versus China
Chapter 6. Bilateral and Multilateral Security Arrangements
Security Arrangements Within the UN Security System
Liberal Security Arrangements
Imposed Security Arrangements
Transactional Security Arrangements
Chapter 7. The United Nations International Security System
Protecting International Peace and Security
The Security Council and Measures Short of Force
The Security Council and Collective Security Actions
General Assembly Emergency Meetings
United Nations Peacekeeping
UN-Approved Peace Enforcement Operations
UN-Regional Organization Hybrid Peace Operations
Chapter 8. Human Security
Defining Human Security
The Geneva Conventions
The Post-Cold War Human Security Agenda
Protecting People from Large-Scale Killing
Civilian Protection
The Future of Human Security
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Democracy, Resilience, and Imagination
About the Author
About the author
Laura Neack is a professor in the department of political science at Miami University in Oxford, OH. She has served as the editor-in-chief of International Studies Perspectives and president of the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association. Her recent books include Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively: Cases and Analyses, Fourth Edition; The New Foreign Policy: Complex Interactions, Competing Interests, Third Edition; and Global Society in Transition.
