Contextualizing Security

Our homeland is no longer a secure sanctuary protected by the oceans. This book provides incredible insights into the security challenges we face at home and abroad today and far into the future. Students of security studies will gain tremendous insights into global threats and challenges. These threats, if not taken seriously, will challenge our survival as a nation. Contextualizing Security is an innovative study with great relevance to ongoing policy debates. The editors have assembled an all-star team of scholars and practitioners to explore security in a way that readers will find accessible, comprehensive, and thought provoking. The book includes a range of topicsstandards within the study of national security but also more recently compelling issues like climate change and cyberattacks. It is essential reading for academics and the general public alike. This unique volume, bridging partisan and disciplinary divides, brings together a remarkable array of policymakers and professors to address the vital but elusive concept of security. It is a singular resource that will enhance the bookshelves of students, scholars, and concerned citizens. Contextualizing Security is an important offering on rising global security and military threats. The leaders and experts assembled for this book analyze broad security currents with an emphasis on Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic (DIME) domains. The book enhances our understanding of key issues with China, Russia, and other complex transnational contexts.

Tobias T. Gibson (Editor) TOBIAS T. GIBSON is the Dr. John Langton Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science and the program director of Security Studies at Westminster College. He is the author of several articles and book chapters, including Use of Drones in Targeted Killings: The Case of Al-Awlaki in Case Studies in Homeland Security and the Harry S. Truman chapter in Chronology of the U.S. Presidency. Gibson is also a frequent contributor to The Hill. Kurt W. Jefferson (Editor) KURT W. JEFFERSON is the dean of graduate education and a professor in the doctoral program in leadership at Spalding University. He is the author of Celtic Politics: Politics in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales and Christianitys Impact on World Politics: Not by Might, nor by Power. His writing has also appeared in VanguardiaDossier and the Christian Science Monitor.