Governing Borderless Threats
Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation

'Non-traditional', border-spanning security problems pervade the global agenda. This is the first book that systematically explains how they are managed.

Lee Jones (Author), Shahar Hameiri (Author)

9781107527621, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 February 2017

286 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg

'[Governing Borderless Threats] focuses on 'security governance', a theme often neglected in scholarly work on new security issues. … This volume's great strength is in the detailed case studies that look in depth at the practical arrangements.' Simon Dalby, Academic Council of the United Nations System (www.acuns.org)

'Non-traditional' security problems like pandemic diseases, climate change and terrorism now pervade the global agenda. Many argue that sovereign state-based governance is no longer adequate, demanding and constructing new approaches to manage border-spanning threats. Drawing on critical literature in political science, political geography and political economy, this is the first book that systematically explains the outcomes of these efforts. It shows that transboundary security challenges are primarily governed not through supranational organisations, but by transforming state apparatuses and integrating them into multilevel, regional or global regulatory governance networks. The socio-political contestation shaping this process determines the form, content and operation of transnational security governance regimes. Using three in-depth case studies - environmental degradation, pandemic disease, and transnational crime - this innovative book integrates global governance and international security studies, and identifies the political and normative implications of non-traditional security governance, providing insights for scholars and policymakers alike.

Part I. Theory: 1. Security and governance: existing approaches
2. The state transformation approach
Part II. Case Studies: 3. Governing transboundary pollution: Southeast Asia's haze
4. Governing infectious disease: H5N1 avian influenza in Southeast Asia
5. Governing transnational crime: securitisation and the global anti-money-laundering regime.

Subject Areas: Security services [KNSS], International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA], Social theory [JHBA], Sociology [JHB]