Book Search
1-2 of 2 results for Author: yee kuang heng (sorted by Publication Date, showing all)
-
Risk, Global Governance and Security
The Other War on Terror
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This book applies risk society theory to the 'War on Terror', steering the discussion away from the militaristic discourse of the Bush era towards an emphasis on global cooperation and a new cosmopolitan agenda. The literature and rhetoric of the 'War on Terror' has been dominated by dramatic...
Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
-
War as Risk Management
Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response. It addresses why the study of ‘risk management’ has helped fields such as sociology and criminology conceptualize new policy challenges but has made...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge