Table of Contents

Foreword About the authors Acknowledgments Preface 1: Introduction: threats to Australia's security What is security? Different perspectives on security Why is an Australian perspective important? Part A: Theoretical approaches 2: Approaches to security analysis Issue: theoretical approaches Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites Part B: Key concepts 3: Human security Issue: human security Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 4: Power structures and power shifts Issue: power shifts Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 5: Middle power Issue: middle-power frameworks Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites Part C: Challenges to security 6: Information security Issue: information security beyond intelligence Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading and viewing Interesting websites 7: Refugees, asylum seekers and international human rights Issue: refugees and human rights Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 8: Environmental security Issue: environmental degradation Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 9: Poverty and development Issue: poverty Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 10: Failed and failing states Issue: regime change and nation-building Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 11: Terrorism Issue: terrorism in the twenty-first century Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 12: Femicide and misogynous culture Issue: femicide Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 13: Culture and security Issue: the culture-security dilemma Sources Discussion Source significance Conclusion Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites 14: Conclusion: managing multidimensional security challenges Discussion questions Further reading Interesting websites References Index

About the Author

Dr Daniel Baldino is a senior lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Perth. He is head of its Politics and International Relations Program. His research interests include international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, Australian politics and foreign policy, US national security strategy and terrorism and counterterrorism. Dr Juliet Pietsch is a senior lecturer in Political Science at the Australian National University. Juliet's research interests lie in analysing broad patterns of social and political behaviour in Australia and South-East Asia. She has a particular research interest in the individual experiences of migration and citizenship for migrants in Australia and South-East Asia. Dr David Lundberg is a senior lecturer at the School of International Studies, University of South Australia. Previously, he has been an APSA Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, a Ministerial Adviser to a Minister for Defence and a Leader of the Government in the Senate and an intelligence analyst for the Office of National Assessments. Dr John A Rees is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney. John is the author of Religion in International Politics and Development: the World Bank and faith institutions (Edward Elgar, 2011). His research interests include the impacts of culture and religion on international security.