National, International, and Human Security: Protection Against Violence

Neack provides a thorough overview of how states pursue security against violence, how this pursuit puts those same states and others in the international system into more or less constant threat of violence, and the implications of state-security practices for human beings who are, always, the victims of this violence.

Laura Neack is a professor in the department of political science at Miami University in Oxford, OH. She has served as the editor-in-chief of International Studies Perspectives and president of the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association. Her recent books include Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively: Cases and Analyses, Fourth Edition; The New Foreign Policy: Complex Interactions, Competing Interests, Third Edition; and Global Society in Transition.