Non-Military Security and Global Order
Subtitle: The Impact of Extremism, Violence and Chaos on National and International Security
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780312231675
Subjects: Police & security services; Political structure & processes; Military Policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Political Science / International Security; Political Science-Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Internal security; Security, International
Description: "As the international system approaches the new millennium, it is the non-military, so-called 'soft' dimension of security that is increasingly at the forefront of national and international agendas. Globalization, unsustainable development, arms proliferation and heightened imperatives of economic and ethno-religious self-identity have all given increased salience to dangers as diverse as terrorism, the drug trade, piracy, environmental degradation, the spread of disease and uncontrolled migration.

The book makes a comprehensive examination of each of these threat potentials, analysing those factors that underpin their growth and the complex way they interact with one another and impact on national and international security. The book also deals with the potentially problematic question of state responses to grey area phenomena.

In particular, it stresses the need for coordinated inter-agency operations, centralized intelligence operations that cross civilian and military jurisdictions and public trust at the national level, combined with fully institutionalized modes of collaboration at the international level."--BOOK JACKET.