About this book series

The security agenda has become increasingly complex in recent years, with the war in Ukraine that began in February 2022 reminding us that we cannot take sustainable peace for granted, and that traditional concerns focusing on the state, war and military defence that came with the Cold War, remain important. It has also highlighted, however, the interconnectedness of the traditional and issues that are now of equal and indeed more significance to the security of the collective and the individual in the 21st Century, including, for example, human, food, cyber, health, environmental, economic, and energy security. Such issues have also seen a proliferation of a multiplicity of actors – state and non-state – as well as institutions at different levels – local, national, regional, global â€“ in the performance of security. Moreover, the construction, contestation and practice of security is increasingly playing out across many new ‘spaces’ and ‘sites’ to address new types of risks and threats that are far from straightforward, including bioterrorism, cyber-attacks, climate change, interference in democratic processes and global pandemics. The increasing complexity and dynamism of the unfolding security agenda is what the New Security Challenges series seeks to capture and reflect, whilst not neglecting the importance of the relationship between the traditional and the new, for the contemporary global security environment.  

For an informal discussion for a book in the series, please contact the series editor George Christou (G.Christou@warwick.ac.uk), or Palgrave editor Lucy Everitt (lucy.everitt.1@palgrave.com).

This book series is indexed by Scopus.

Electronic ISSN
2731-0337
Print ISSN
2731-0329
Series Editor
  • George Christou

Book titles in this series

Abstracted and indexed in

  1. SCOPUS