Global Security Reimagined: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration

This edited monograph aims to unpack the discourse surrounding global security from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives. While various aspects of security such as great power politics, border security, cybersecurity, energy security, and terrorism often absorb the main focus of academic, political, economic and media attention, this book emphasises the significance of a holistic approach and multi-level analysis of security in order to attain a comprehensive insight and understanding. The book explores a range of perspectives, including ontological security, early childhood intervention, migration, cyber peace, the use of autonomous weapons and emerging technologies, as well as critically engaging security from feminist and multicultural perspectives. Overall, the collection intends to raise questions rather than offer answers to the complex and perpetual question of local and global security in all its forms.

The contributors are primarily composed of a team of RMIT University researchers within the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS), who come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including, Anthropology, Political Science, Criminology and Social Work and International Studies. Through this collaboration, the researchers will highlight GUSS as leaders in this field. Moreover, the authors also have a wide range of experience, including early and mid-career research as well as senior scholars. This cooperation reinforces the formal and informal mentoring processes at GUSS.

Global Security Reimagined: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration is intended for academics, researchers and policymakers to further expand their thinking around security. It is also particularly aimed at undergraduate and post-graduate students studying security so they can gain a critical and holistic insight into (in)security from a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives.

Dr. Tuba Boz is a lecturer in the Social Work and Human Services Program at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. She co-leads the Migration, Mobility and Security Research Network (MM&S RN) at RMIT University. Dr. Boz works on international interdisciplinary projects for academic institutions, government, and non-government organizations, focusing on social cohesion, migration, and intercultural interaction. Her research interests include migration, arts and sport, multiculturalism, documentary films, Muslim minorities, and the Turkish diaspora.

Professor Hariz Halilovich, an award-winning anthropologist and author, is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Principal Research Fellow at Social and Global Studies Centre.  His research has focused on politically motivated violence, forced migration, memory studies, place-based identity politics and human rights (incl. right to education). This research informs his approaches to learning and teaching, which see students engage in experiential learning and field-based studies in order to better understand self and community. Much of his work has an applied focus, and he has conducted research on migration and human rights-related issues for a range of non-governmental and governmental bodies. In addition to academic writing, he has also produced multimedia exhibitions, works of fiction and radio and TV programs.

Professor Aiden Warren is a Fulbright Scholar in Australia-United States Alliance Studies, sponsored by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of International Security, US national security and foreign policy, US Politics (ideas, institutions, contemporary and historical), International Relations (especially great power politics), Nuclear proliferation, non-proliferation and arms control, and emerging technologies (AI, cyber, autonomous weapons systems). He is Editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century and Global Security in an Age of Crisis (Edinburgh University Press) and is also Chief Editor of the Palgrave Studies in Global Security book series.