| Existential Threats and Civil Security Relations Contributor(s): Barak, Oren (Editor), Sheffer, Gabriel (Editor), Wæver, Ole (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739134841 ISBN-13: 9780739134849 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $135.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 355.033 |
| LCCN: 2009019026 |
| Series: Innovations in the Study of World Politics |
| Physical Information: 312 pages |
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| Publisher Description: At the onset of the twenty-first century, a substantial portion of politicians and citizens throughout the world believe and declare that their states are facing existential threats, whether domestic, external, or both. This perception is discerned in states categorized widely, from not democratic and partially democratic states to small states and greater powers that are considered to be democratic, such as the United States, Britain, and France. The chapters in this book present and further develop the major theoretical approaches to existential threats: structural, cultural, and rational. The authors also conceptualize existential threats and distinguish them from other types of threats, discussing some of the most important actors that promote the perception of an existential threat-the security sector especially (the military and the other security agencies), but also the media. Existential Threats and Civil Security Relations provides fresh comparative perspectives on a number of relevant cases, including small states that have faced-or still face-similar predicaments. These include effective democracies, such as the United States (in its formative period) and Switzerland; formal democracies, such as Israel and Finland; authoritarian or partially free states that have transformed into formal democracies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, South Africa, and the East European and Baltic states after the Cold War; and states that have remained partially free like Singapore and some formerly Soviet states. |
Contributor Bio(s): Elman, Miriam F.: - Miriam F. Elman is associate professor of political science and the Inaugural Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University where she also serves as a research director at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). Elman received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and her B.A. in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the editor and co-editor of five books, including most recently Democracy and Conflict Resolution: the Dilemmas of Israel's Peacemaking and Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City. In addition to her books, she is also the author and co-author of over 65 journal articles, book chapters and reports on topics related to international and national security, the nexus between religion, politics and conflict resolution, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elman's research has been supported by many government agencies and private foundations, including the US Department of Education, Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict (CSRC), and Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), where she was an International Security Fellow. |
