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1. State Responses to Human Security

   At Home and Abroad

   Edited by Courtney Hillebrecht, Tyler R. White, Patrice McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Security

   The aim of this book is to analyse why and how states respond to human security, both at home and abroad. Although states still define security as "the defense of territory" from military attack, increasingly security pertains to the protection of human beings from violence. This violence can...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The International Community and Statebuilding

   Getting Its Act Together?

   Edited by Patrice McMahon, Jon Western

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book brings together policymakers and academics to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. In the past twenty years, statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to stabilize violent conflicts. From the Balkans, to Iraq, to...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge