Security in the West, Evolution of a Concept

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Giampiero Giacomello (Editor); R. Craig Nation (Editor)

Catholic University of Milan Press/Vita e Pensiero

Distributed outside the European Union by Cornell University Press for the Catholic University of Milan Press/Vita e Pensiero

The West—Europe, the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand—has long been a primary producer of security (for itself) and of insecurity (for itself and for others). Western discourse not only invented the term security but also expanded and reshaped it according to its own complex evolution. The goals of this volume are to analyze the evolution of the contested concept of security and to discuss how the concept of security has emerged as a “Western social enterprise.” The contributors to Security in the West address how Western conceptions of security have developed and changed since the end of the Cold War, the nature of new security challenges and their implications for the West, and the direction in which evolving concepts of security will lead the West and the entire global community. This book will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners of international security and international relations.

Contributors
Fabio Armao
Steve Blank
Fabrizio Coticchia
Johan Eriksson
Matthew Evangelista
Federica Ferrari
Giampiero Giacomello
Christopher Jones
Andrea Locatelli
R. Craig Nation
Niklas Schörnig
Francesco Strazzari
Simone Tholens

Subject Areas
Political Science / Security Studies
Political Science / International Relations