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In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways. The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification systems, CCTV and quasi-military techniques to police migrants and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This is the first collection of anthropological studies of security with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on Europe. The Anthropology of Security draws together studies on the lived experiences of security and policing from the perspective of those most affected in their everyday lives. The anthropological perspectives in this volume stretch from the frontlines of policing and counter-terrorism to border control.

National security --- Social aspects --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Government policy --- #SBIB:327.5H11 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Military policy --- Collectieve veiligheid --- Toegepaste antropologie --- National security -- Social aspects. --- Military & Naval Science --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Law, Politics & Government --- Social Sciences --- Armies --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social aspects. --- National security - Social aspects

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The missile defence policy of the US plays a crucial role in international affairs and is normally studied from a US perspective. This book is different, it delivers a sharp analysis of regional and national variations and integrates them with US viewpoints to present a rounded and comprehensive study. What will be the international ramifications of American plans to deploy a comprehensive national missile defence policy? This is a key question for all those wishing to build a sense of the global future and is here answered with clarity and rigour by expert contributors.

Ballistic missile defenses. --- National security. --- Security, International. --- World politics --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- National security --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- Military policy --- Defenses, Ballistic missile --- Air defenses --- Government policy --- Security [International ] --- 21st century

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In 1993 the first Clinton administration declared environmental security a national security issue, but by the end of the Bush administrations environmental security had vanished from the government's agenda. This book uses changing US environmental security policy to propose a revised securitisation theory, one that both allows insights into the intentions of key actors and enables moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security. Security and the Environment brings together the subject of environmental security and the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory. Drawing on original interviews with former key players in United States environmental security, Rita Floyd makes a significant and original contribution to environmental security studies and security studies more generally. This book will be of interest to international relations scholars and political practitioners concerned with security, as well as students of international environmental politics and US policy-making.

Sociology of policy --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- United States --- Environmental policy --- National security --- Homeland defense --- Homeland security --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Environmental policy - United States --- National security - United States --- United States of America

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Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders daily, particularly in large cross-border urban regions.This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands. Specifically, the chapters in this volume ask policy-makers to recognize that two fundamental elements define borders and borderlands: first, human activities (the agency and agent power of individual ties and forces spanning a border), and second, the broader social processes that frame individual action, such as market forces, government activities (law, regulations, and policies), and the regional culture and politics of a borderland.Borders emerge as the historically and geographically variable expression of human ties exercised within social structures of varying force and influence, and it is the interplay and interdependence between people's incentives to act and the surrounding structures (i.e. constructed social processes that contain and constrain individual action) that determine the effectiveness of border security policies.This book argues that the nature of borders is to be porous, which is a problem for security policy makers. It shows that when for economic, cultural, or political reasons human activities increase across a border and borderland, governments need to increase cooperation and collaboration with regard to security policies, if only to avoid implementing mismatched security policies.

Boundaries --- Border security --- National security --- Globalization --- Frontières. --- Mondialisation --- Border security -- Europe. --- Border security -- North America. --- National security -- Europe. --- National security -- North America. --- Border control --- Border management --- Cross-border security --- Boundaries. --- Globalization. --- Mondialisation. --- Securite nationale --- Securite frontaliere --- Frontieres. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- Military policy --- Borders (Geography) --- Boundary lines --- Frontiers --- Geographical boundaries --- International boundaries --- Lines, Boundary --- Natural boundaries --- Perimeters (Boundaries) --- Political boundaries --- Borderlands --- Territory, National --- Government policy --- Security measures --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Christianity --- Philosophy --- Border security - North America --- Border security - Europe --- National security - North America --- National security - Europe --- Sécurité frontalière - Amérique du Nord. --- Sécurité frontalière - Europe --- Sécurité nationale - Amérique du Nord --- Sécurité nationale - Europe --- national security --- frontier --- United States --- Mexcio --- European Union --- human migration --- Sécurité frontalière --- Sécurité nationale

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Russia grapples with the radical post-Cold War world order

Deterrence (Strategy) --- Nuclear weapons --- National security --- Military policy --- Psychology, Military --- Strategy --- First strike (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear crisis stability --- Russia (Federation) --- Military policy. --- National security - Russia (Federation) --- Nuclear weapons - Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) - Military policy