Understanding Global Security

by Peter Hough

Book Overview

Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples' lives are threatened and / or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of security studies - war, deterrence and terrorism - are analyzed alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime, disease, disasters, environmental degradation and human rights abuses to provide a comprehensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032244607
• ISBN13: 9781032244600
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages