Security
in the 21st Century:
The challenge of transnational threat systems
Dr. Richard Matthew
About Dr. Richard Matthew
Richard A. Matthew is Associate Professor of International and
Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social
Science at the University of California at Irvine, and Director
of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu)
and the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research
Office (www.gechs.uci.edu), both at UCI. He is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council (Region 1), has taught at the National
Foreign Affairs Training Center, and has worked closely with the
Departments of State and Defense as well as numerous non-governmental
organizations. His research focuses on international relations in
the developing world, especially South Asia, and he has published
widely on transnational security threats including environmental
change, terrorism and landmines. Recent books and co-edited volumes
include Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New
Environmental Politics (SUNY Press: 1999); Dichotomy of
Power: Nation versus State in World Politics (Lexington: 2002);
Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods, and Security
(IISD: 2002); Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle
Power Cooperation in International Security Policy (Praeger;
2003); and Landmines and Human Security: International Relations
and War’s Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press: 2004). Key articles
include “Sex, Drugs and Heavy Metal: Transnational Threats
and National Vulnerabilities,” “The Pendulum Effect:
Explaining Shifts in the Democratic Response to Terrorism,”
and “Bioterrorism and National Security: Peripheral Threats
and Core Vulnerabilities.”
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