Understanding New Security Threats

This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors.

Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues of threats to state and national territory, this new textbook rests on the following premises:

• traditional state-centered threats, such as nuclear proliferation and espionage, remain a concern;

• old and new threats combine and create i...