Global security in the twenty-first century

Sean Kay

This thoroughly updated edition offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the world. The author assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the Middle East, Asia, and Eurasia. He focuses especially on the implications of the election of Barack Obama and the changing role of the United States in global security. This edition builds the emphasis on the role of trade and technology, the militarization of space, the privatization of security, the use of sanctions, ethnic conflict, and transnational crime. It goes even farther to incorporate traditional thinking about national security in the context of human rights, democracy, population, health, environment, energy, and especially education.