Security Studies

<p><em>Security Studies: An Applied Introduction</em> offers a transformative tool to understand, analyse, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies with the following features:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Policy-Relevant:</strong> each chapter provides analysis of policy responses to empirical security issues. This practical approach offers a toolkit to assess and contribute to real-world policy discussions.</li> <li><strong>Empirical Application:</strong> vividly demonstrating the real-world relevance of Security Studies with online videos from leading security practitioners to show how theory informs practice. </li> <li><strong>Pedagogically Rich:</strong> comprehensive online resources and chapters features such as ′security beyond the real′ and hands-on exercises that critically assess real-world security responses and their policy implications that offer ways to apply theoretical concepts in a highly innovative way. </li> <li><strong>Innovative Structure:</strong> seamlessly integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical security concerns, this textbook offers a non-compartmentalised approach to theory and practice.</li> <li><strong>Hot Topics:</strong> placing contemporary, creative, emerging, and underexplored approaches and empirical topics at the forefront including cyber security, racism, and space security.</li> </ul> <p>This is the perfect introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Security Studies and International or Global Security. </p> <p><strong>Malte Riemann </strong>is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Armed Conflict, Leiden University, the Netherlands  </p> <p><strong>Norma Rossi </strong>is Associate<strong> </strong>Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK</p>