Globalization and Environmental Challenges
Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

Assesses the global reconceptualization of security triggered by the end of the Cold War, globalization and manifold impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century. This work addresses the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security.

This book contains carefully revised papers from three workshops at ISA (Montreal), IPRA (Sopron) and the Fourth Pan European Conference on International Relations (The Hague) and additional commissioned papers. All chapters were anonymously peer reviewed.

Forewords -- Dedications -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions and Credits -- Prefaces -- Part I Introduction: Theoretical Contexts for Security Reconceptualization since 1990 -- Part II The Conceptual Quartet: Security, Peace, Development and Environment and its Dyadic Linkages -- Part III Philosophical, Ethical and Religious Contexts for Conceptualizations of Security -- Part IV Spatial Context and Referents of Security Concepts -- Part V Reconceptualization of Security in Scientific Disciplines since 1990 -- Part VI Reconceptualizing Dimensions of Security (Debates since 1990) -- Part VII Institutional Security Concepts Revisited for the 21st Century -- Part VIII Reconceptualizing Regional Security for the 21st Century -- Part IX Reconceptualizing Security and Alternative Security Futures -- Part X Summary and Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index.