Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this new work on global security thinking, 91 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.

Forewords - Dedications - Acknowledgements - Permissions and Credits - Prefaces - Part I Introduction: Theoretical Contexts for Security Reconceptualization since 1990 - Part II The Conceptual Quartet: Security, Peace, Development and Environment and its Dyadic Linkages - Part III Philosophical, Ethical and Religious Contexts for Conceptualizations of Security - Part IV Spatial Context and Referents of Security Concepts - Part V Reconceptualization of Security in Scientific Disciplines since 1990 - Part VI Reconceptualizing Dimensions of Security (Debates since 1990) - Part VII Institutional Security Concepts Revisited for the 21st Century - Part VIII Reconceptualizing Regional Security for the 21st Century - Part IX Reconceptualizing Security and Alternative Security Futures - Part X Summary and Conclusions - Abbreviations - Bibliography - Biographies of Contributors - Index.