Regulating Global Security

This edited collection presents an innovative approach to global security regimes. Employing both conceptual and empirical studies, the volume examines three empirically-oriented sets of cases: weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian disarmament and unconventional threats. The book combines interrogations of the most prominent prohibition/regulatory regimes while covering WMDs, humanitarian issues and other agendas such as drugs, endangered species and cyber security. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in International Relations and Security Studies.

Draws from several generations of regime theory with a particular emphasis on key constitutive effects of the productive power Divides cases into regime 'clusters': WMDs (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons), humanitarian cluster (SALWs, APLs, CMs) and a 'unconventional' cluster (drugs, cyber weapons) Expands the reach beyond weapons while maintaining the focus on the realm of global security

Autorentext

Nik Hynek is Associate Professor in Theory of Politics and Chair of the Department of Security Studies at the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic.

Ondrej Ditrych is Director of Institute of International Relations Prague and academic fellow at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Vit Stritecky is Assistant Professor in Security Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Evolutionary and Disciplinary Characteristics of Regime Theorization.- 3. Global Security Regimes and International Law.- 4. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Between Prevention and Prohibition.- 5. Global Governance of Natural Uranium: An Uneven Patchwork.- 6. The Biological Weapons Regime.- 7. The International Regime Prohibiting Chemical Weapons and Its Evolution.- 8. Powers of the Gun: Process and Possibility in Global Small Arms Control.- 9. Legal and Political Analysis of Antipersonnel Landmines and Cluster Munitions Regimes.- 10. International Migration Regimes: Understanding Environmental Exception.- 11. The International Drug Prohibition Regime As Security Regulation: Stability and Change in an Increasingly Less Prohibitionist World.- 12. Fate and Future of the Wildlife Trade Regulatory Regimes: The Case of Cites and Rhino Horn Trafficking.- 13.Global Code: Power and the Weak Regulation of Cyberweapons.- 14. Conclusion