Includes bibliographical references and index.

Realism and security studies / William C. Wohlforth -- Liberalism : a theoretical and empirical assessment / Thomas C. Walker and David L. Rousseau -- International political economy and security / Heikki Patomäki -- The english school and international security / Barry Buzan -- Critical security studies / David Mutimer -- Constructivism and securitization studies / Juha A. Vuori -- Poststructuralist approaches to security / Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster -- Debates in feminist security studies / Annick T.R. Wibben -- Postcolonialism : interrogating national security and drone warfare / Sheila Nair -- Human security : lessons learned from Afghanistan / Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv -- Risk and security / Karen Lund Petersen -- Security as practice / Christian Bueger -- Terrorism and counterterrorism / Oldrich Bures -- Organized crime / Adam Edwards -- Migration and security / Jef Huysmans and Vicki Squire -- Cyber-security / Ronald Deibert -- War / Christopher Coker -- Ethnic and religious violence / Delphine Alles -- Energy security / Robert W. Orttung -- Resources, the environment, and conflict / Nils Petter Gleditsch and Ole Magnus Theisen -- Pandemics and global health / Simon Rushton and Sonja Kittelsen -- China's rise : counterproductive fearmongering / Jiun Bang and David C. Kang -- Indian security policy / Sumit Ganguly -- Afghanistan : a state in limbo / Amin Saikal -- Iran / Rouzbeh Parsi -- Intervention in Iraq : from regime change to de facto partition / Gareth Stansfield -- The Syrian crisis and international security / Raymond Hinnebusch -- Israel-Palestine : an archipelago of (in)security / Nada Ghandour-Demiri -- Analysing drug violence in Mexico / Kimberly Heinle, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira and David A. Shirk -- Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Pierre Englebert -- Russia's revival / Jeffrey Mankoff -- Alliances / Carlo Masala and Alessandro Scheffler Corvaja -- International sanctions / Olivier Schmitt -- Deterrence / Richard Ned Lebow -- Nuclear non-proliferation / Wilfred Wan -- Public diplomacy in a national security context / Nancy Snow -- Statebuilding / Tobias Debiel and Patricia Rinck -- Humanitarian intervention / Aidan Hehir -- Global security governance / Thomas J. Biersteker -- Resilience / David Chandler -- The study of crisis management / Arjen Boin, Magnus Ekengren and Mark Rhinard -- "Killer robots" and preventive arms control / Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer and Thierry Balzacq.