NON-STATE ACTORS AND NON-MILITARY SECURITY
MA Course no. ASK203F, Department of Political Science, University of Iceland
Spring 2010
ADDITIONAL READING LIST – FOR OPTIONAL USE AND ESSAY PURPOSES
This contains materials mainly relevant to the first, more general half of the course
THE MODERN SECURITY AGENDA; GENERAL
Barry Buzan, People, states and fear, ECPR Classics, 2nd edition 2007
Paul D Williams ed, Security Studies: an Introduction, Routledge 2008
Alan Collins ed., Contemporary Security Studies, OUP Jan 2007 (in HÍ library)
Richard M. Price and Mark W. Zacher, eds. The United Nations and Global Security (New York: Palgrave, 2004).
Dan Plesch, The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace,(London, Politico’s, 2004).
Michael E. Brown, ed., Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003): 305-327.
Also browse through the European Security Strategy (Dec.2003) , the National Security Strategy of the United States (2002 version), and the OSCE’s ‘Strategy to Address Threats to Security and Stability in the Twenty-First Century’, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, December 2003, text at
‘A more secure world: our shared responsibility’, report of the UN High Level Group on Threats, Challenge and Change, Dec. 2004, text with UN Secretary-General’s covering letter at
For high-quality opinion poll data on popular concerns and national attitudes: i) ii)
(If interested in WMD)Joseph Cirincione, Jon B. Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkamul, Deadly Arsenals:Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005 2nd edition): 1-25. [Available at
George Perkovich, Jessica Mathews, Joseph Cirincione, Rose Gottemoeller and Jon Wolfsthal, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003).
Report of the Commission on WMD chaired by Dr Hans Blix, pub. Stockholm, June 2006, text at – see 'Final report' in menu on left. (On the same website, many of the background papers presented to the Commission on specific WMD issues are well worth reading)
Paul Haslam, Jessica Schafer and Pierre Beaudet, 'Introduction to International Development', OUP Canada Jan 2009
TERRORISM
Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998): 13-44.
Robert A. Pape, “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism,” American Political Science Review 97 (3), August 2003: 343-361.
Daniel Byman, “Al-Qaida as an Adversary,” World Politics 56 (1), October 2003: 139-163.
Andrew Kydd and Barbara Walter, “Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence,” International Organization 56 (2), 2002: 263-296.
The Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report Available at:
Miles Kahler, Networks and Failed States: September 11 and the Long Twentieth Century. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the APSA, August 29- September 1, 2002, Boston, MA. Available on-line at
Steven E. Miller, “Terrifying Thoughts: Power, Order and Terror After 9/11,” Global Governance 11 (2005) 247-271.
Paul Wilkinson, Terrorism versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response, 2nd edition(London: Routledge, 2006)
TERRORISM AND CONFLICT
Ekaterina Stepanova,’Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects’, SIPRI Research Report no 23, OUP 2008
Ekaterina Stepanova, 'Anti-terrorism and Peacebuilding during and after conflict', SIPRI Policy Paper of June 2003, text at
Aarish U Khan, ‘The Terrorist Threat and the Policy Response in Pakistan’, SIPRI Policy Paper no 11, text at
Neil Melvin, ‘Building Stability in the North Caucasus: Ways forward for Russia and the European Union’, SIPRI Policy Paper no 16, text at
Ivan Arreguin-Toft, How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Daniel Byman, “Constructing a Democratic Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities,” International Security 28 (1), Summer 2003: 47-78.
David Edelstein, “Occupational Hazards: Why Military Occupations Succeed or Fail,” International Security 29 (1) Summer 2004: 49-91.
CIVIL WARS AND NON-STATE ACTORS
Database on major armed conflicts: Uppsala Conflict Data Programme,
Database on peace operations:
Center for International Cooperation NY University, ‘Annual review of Global Peace Operations 2007’, see
Kalevi Holsti, The State, War and the State of War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 1-40.
Paul Collier, Economic Causes of Civil War and Their Implications for Policy (Washington DC: World Bank, 2000):
Karen Ballentine and Heiko Nitzsche, eds., Profiting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimensions of Civil War (Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 2005).
Nicholas Sambanis, “Using Case Studies to Expand Economic Models of Civil War,” Perspectives on Politics 2 (2) June 2004: 259-279.
Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman, eds., The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance (Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner, 2003).
James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, “Ethnicity, Insurgency and Civil War,” American Political Science Review 97 (1), February 2003: 75-90.
Chaim Kaufmann, “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars,” International Security 20 (4), Spring 1996: 136-175.
John Mueller, “The Banality of Ethnic War,” International Security 25 (1), Summer 2000: 42-70.
Stuart J. Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001): 1-47.
Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild and Elizabeth M. Cousens, Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements (New York: Lynn Rienner, 2002).
Renata Dwan ed., ‘Executive Policing: Enforcing the Law in Peace Operations’, SIPRI Research Report N 16, OUP 2002, text also available at
Stephen John Stedman, “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” International Security 22 (2), Autumn 1997: 5-53.
Roland Paris, At War’s End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 1-39; 151-236
Annika Hansen and Sharon Wiharta, two publications on 'Transition to a Just Order: Establishing Local Ownership after Conflict´, available at URL
Heiner Hanggi and Vincenza Scherrer, chapter on 'Recent Experiences of UN Integrated Missions in Security Sector Reform' in Hanggi+Scherrer, eds, 'Security Sector Reform in UN Integrated Missions', DCAF Geneva 2008, pdf at
David Spence and Phillip Fluri (eds), 'The EU and Security Sector Reform', John Harper publishing (London) for DCAF 2008
J Dobbins and others, 'Europe's Role in Nation Building: from the Balkans to the Congo', RAND corporation Santa Monica 2008
HUMAN SECURITY AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
Commission on Human Security, Human Security Now (New York: Commission on Human Security, 2003). Available on the Web at
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty September 2001 Available on-line at
Gary King and Christopher J. L. Murray, “Rethinking Human Security,” Political Science Quarterly 116 (4), Winter 2001-2: 585-610.
Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
Roland Paris, “Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?” International Security 26 (2), Fall 2001: 87-102.
‘A Human Security Doctrine for Europe’: Barcelona Report of the study group appointed by Solana and chaired by Mary Kaldor on Europe’s security capabilities¨ (text at <
Richard K. Betts, “The Delusion of Impartial Intervention,” Foreign Affairs 73 (November/December 1994): 20-44.
Edward N. Luttwak, “Give War a Chance” Foreign Affairs July/August 1999.
Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000): 1-12, 163-198, 283-298.
J.L. Hozgrefe and Robert O. Keohane, eds. Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 275-321.
Taylor B Seybolt, ‘Humanitarian Military Intervention: the conditions for success and failure’, OUP for SIPRI 2007
Sarah Kenyon Lischer, “Collateral Damage: Humanitarian Assistance as a Cause of Conflict,” International Security 28 (1) Summer 2003: 79-109.
Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams, “Who’s Keeping the Peace? Regionalization and Contemporary Peace Operations,” International Security 29 (4) Spring 2005: 157-195
Nicholas L. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Albrecht Schnabel, ´The human security approach to direct and structural violence', Appendix 2C in SIPRI yearbook 2008, available at URL
AJK Bailes, 'What role for the private sector in societal security?', EPC Brussels 2008, text at
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