Books in the Routledge Critical Security Studies series

This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies and strategies relating to Space activities, and to place these in a broader theoretical perspective. The book reveals the relationship between activities in Outer Space and terrestrial international relations.

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become 'securitized' and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are.

This book provides researchers and students with a discussion of methodological approaches for studying non-state actors in international security.

This book provides a critical assessment of the theories and practice of environmental security in the context of the Anthropocene.

This volume examines the potential for ethical visions of security and what such visions might look like, and brings together emerging theoretical discussions on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies by some of the leading scholars in the field. .

This volume examines the potential for ethical visions of security and what such visions might look like, and brings together emerging theoretical discussions on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies by some of the leading scholars in the field. .

This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault's theories of biopolitics and governmentality. This book interprets the policies and practices associated with the new humanitarianism in general, as well as the dynamics of two specific international assistance efforts: the post-2001 conflict-related assistance effort in Afghanistan and the post-2000 Chernobyl-related assistance effort in Belarus. The book thereby demonstrates that it is possible to generate a powerful and insightful interpretation of the changing role and nature of humanitarian action, and, in so doing, to better understand contemporary humanitarianism, as well as identifying resistances to it and envisaging alternative ways of addressing humanitarian concerns. Making an important contribution to existing scholarship on humanitarianism, the changing nature of post-Cold War humanitarian action, and Foucault, this book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, humanitarianism, governmentality, and IR more generally.

This book provides researchers and students with a discussion of methodological approaches for studying non-state actors in international security.

Presents an explanation of how the US military operates in Iraq, and increases our understanding of the operation of 'informatic' violence by the networked military.

Intends to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. This book investigates the limitations of contemporary critical and emancipatory theorising and its relationship with contemporary power structures. It is of interest to students of critical security studies, international relations and security studies.

Tracing the historical and philosophical roots of modern war from the 17th Century onwards, this book reveals that far from paralyzing the project of re-problematisating war, the emergence of Network-Centric War (NCW) affords us an opportunity to rethink war in new and philosophically challenging ways.

Attempts to define the relationship between gender and international security. This book analyzes and critiques international security theory and practice from a gendered perspective.

The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound. This title analyses a number of controversial policies, and contentious strategies which have promoted space activities under the rubric of exploration and innovation, militarization and weaponization, colonization and commercialization.

This book problematises the idea of and debates about a 'divided West' that have emerged since 9/11 and the controversy over the Iraq War.

This book defines the relationship between gender and international security, analyzing and critiquing international security theory and practice from a gendered perspective.