ABSTRACT

This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the peace, security, and development nexus from a global perspective, and investigates the interfaces of these issues in a context characterised by many new challenges.

By bringing together more than 40 leading experts and commentators from across the world, the Handbook maps the various research agendas related to these three themes, taking stock of existing work and debates, while outlining areas for further engagement. In doing so, the chapters may serve as a primer for new researchers while also informing the wider scholarly community about the latest research trends and innovations. 

The volume is split into three thematic parts:

  • Concepts and approaches
  • New drivers of conflict, insecurity, and developmental challenges
  • Actors, institutions, and processes.

For ease of use and organisational consistency, each chapter provides readers with an overview of each research area, a review of the state of the literature, a summary of the major debates, and promising directions for future research.

This Handbook will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, development studies, security studies, and International Relations.

part I|96 pages

Concepts and approaches

chapter 1|12 pages

Meanings of peace

chapter 2|12 pages

Conceptions of security

chapter 3|12 pages

Human security

chapter 4|11 pages

Peacebuilding

part II|136 pages

New drivers of conflict, insecurity, and development challenges

chapter 9|16 pages

Climate and conflict 1

chapter 10|17 pages

Health problems and epidemics

chapter 12|15 pages

Maritime insecurities

chapter 13|11 pages

US foreign policy and global peace and security

The case for a new foreign policy

chapter 15|10 pages

State-building and post state-building

From triumphalism to defeatism

part III|209 pages

Actors, institutions, and processes

chapter 19|11 pages

State–society relations in the era of populist politics

The role of corporate responsibility

chapter 20|12 pages

Appropriate interventions in an increasingly interconnected world

Overview of interventionism and development in insecure contexts

chapter 22|10 pages

Peace journalism

chapter 28|16 pages

Regional organizations