Globalization and Environmental Challenges

Globalization and Environmental Challenges pose new security dangers and concerns. In this reference book on global security thinking, 92 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess 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. In 10 parts, 75 chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; discuss the relationship between security, peace, development and environment; review the reconceptualization of security in philosophy, international law, economics and political science and for the political, military, economic, social and environmental security dimension and the adaptation of the institutional security concepts of the UN, EU and NATO; analyze the reconceptualization of regional security and alternative security futures and draw conclusions for future research and action.


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.