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Brief Summary Fully revised to incorporate recent developments, this fourth edition of Understanding Global Security analyses the variety of ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts: war, deterrence and terrorism, are analysed alongside non-military security issues such as famine, crime, disease, disasters, environmental degradation and human rights abuses to provide a comprehensive survey of how and why people are killed in the contemporary world. This new edition features: • Greater coverage of the evolving theoretical literature on security, including more analysis of critical theory perspectives and emerging schools of thought. • Reflections on recent developments in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. • New data and cases on poverty, hunger and depression and greater analysis of the social and political implications of the prolonged period of stagnation the global economy has gone through. • New content reflecting the recent resurgence in populist nationalism evident in the election of Trump in the USA, the UK’s exit from the EU and the authoritarian turn taken in many countries. • Analysis of the 2015 Paris climate change treaty and the international responses to recent pandemics such as Ebola and Zika • A new section has been included on suicide, plugging a gap evident in the earlier editions. User-friendly and easy to follow, this highly acclaimed and popular academic textbook is designed to make a complex subject accessible to all and will continue to be essential reading for everyone interested in security. ISBN:9781138726833 Author:Peter Hough

Brief Summary This book provides a comprehensive new introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. The text summarizes and discusses the major trends in the field of diplomacy, developing an innovative analytical toolbox for understanding diplomacy not as a collection of practices or a set of historical traditions, but as a form of institutionalized communication through which authorized representatives produce, manage and distribute public goods. The book: o traces the evolution of diplomacy from its beginnings in ancient Egypt, Greece and China to our current age of global diplomacy; o examines theoretical explanations about how diplomats take decisions, make relations and shape the world; o Discusses normative approaches to how diplomacy ought to adapt itself to the twenty-first century, help remake states and assist the peaceful evolution of international order. In sum, Understanding International Diplomacy provides an up-to-date, accessible and authoritative overview of how diplomacy works and ought to work in a globalizing world. This new textbook is essential reading for students of international diplomacy, and highly recommended for students of crisis negotiation, international organizations, foreign policy and international relations in general. ISBN:9781135039271 Author:Corneliu Bjola and Markus Kornprobst