The Palgrave handbook of national security [electronic resource] / Michael Clarke, Adam Henschke, Matthew Sussex, Tim Legrand, editors.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 National Security: Theories, Actors, Issues -- Part I Theories -- 2 Understanding National Security: The Promises and Pitfalls of International Relations Theory -- The National Security Landscape: Changing Definitions, Themes and Processes -- Statehood, Securitisation and National Security -- National Interests -- Sovereignty and International Law -- Power, Influence and International Order -- Making National Security Policy in an Age of Globalisation and Shifting Power: Balancing Risk and Resilience

Theories of International Relations and National Security Choices -- Realist Approaches -- Liberal Approaches -- Constructivist Approaches -- From Theory to Practice: Case Studies on Major National Security Issues -- The Global War on Terror -- Climate Change -- Shifts in Global Order: The Rise of China and the Relative Decline of the United States -- Conclusions -- 3 National Security and Public Policy: Exceptionalism Versus Accountability -- What Is Public Policy? -- A Brief History of Public Policy -- Public Policy in Liberal Democracies

National Security and Public Policy in Liberal Democracy -- Methodological Challenges of National Security Evaluation -- Exceptionalized Policy-Making in Liberal Democracies -- Scrutiny, Accountability and Exceptionalism -- Exempting National Security from Public Policy Imperatives -- The Expanding Remit of National Security Policy -- National Security and the Shadow of Illiberalism -- Conclusions -- 4 Ethics and National Security: A Case for Reasons in Decision-Making -- Introduction -- The Problem: Ethics and National Security -- On Ethics, National Security and Liberal Democracies -- Ethics

Nations and States16 -- Security -- An Open Question: Pluralism Versus Anything Goes33 -- A Dynamic Space -- Where To? A Guide for Ethical Decision Making in National Security -- Part II Actors -- 5 Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself: The National Security Policy of the United States -- Free Security -- What Are We Afraid Of? Issues and Debates in Twenty-First-Century U.S. National Security -- Traditional Threats: Peer Competitors -- Nontraditional Threats: Terrorism, Rogue, and Failed States -- Technological Threats: Nuclear, Cyber!, Killer Robots -- Nuclear Weapons States, 1988 and 2018

Imagined Threats: Unknown Unknowns -- Structure and Insecurity -- Conclusions -- 6 Chinese National Security: New Agendas and Emerging Challenges -- The End of the Cold War and Emerging Security Challenges -- National Security: Emerging Challenges -- Reconceptualizing Security: New Structures -- Conclusion -- 7 Russia's National Security Posture -- The Roots of Russian Conduct -- Understanding Russian National Security Policy -- Constructivist Approaches -- Neoliberal Approaches -- Realist Approaches -- Power and Weakness: Enablers and Constraints -- Military Power

Includes index.

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