Peter Hough

Middlesex University, UK · Department of Law

Military ecocide, the destruction of the natural environment in the course of fighting or preparing for war, has a long history and remains a prominent feature of contemporary conflicts. Efforts to prohibit this in International Law were initiated after the US’ notorious defoliation campaign in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and have developed since...

Terrorism has become a common phenomenon in contemporary global security architecture, earning it an infectious and contagious status in recent years. A better understanding or assessment of this phenomenon could be examining two very active terrorist groups operating in different geographical locations, Boko Haram (B.H.) and the Islamic State of I...

Environmental security is generally held to be a contemporary or even futuristic concern. However, as with many facets of security thought, this overlooks how the unparalleled technological, economic and social changes of the 19th Century forged much of the international political landscape we now inhabit. The tendency for ecological political enqu...

This chapter appraises the concept of ecological security. The treatment of environmental questions as matters of security has grown over the last half century— both in theory and practice—but has also proved contentious. Firstly, environmental “securitization” is anathema to the traditional realist view that non-military issues do not warrant such...

Military ecocide, the destruction of the natural environment in the course of fighting or preparing for war, has a long history and remains a regular feature of contemporary conflicts. Efforts to prohibit this in international law were initiated after the US’ notorious defoliation campaign in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and have advanced since the...

The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental and security issues are set out. The book then goes on to present how and why environmental issues have come to be framed in some quarters as 'national security' concerns in the context of the effects of...

The use of synthetic chemicals has revolutionized agriculture, bringing at the same time huge gains in the form of increased food yields and many significant problems arising from the toxic nature of many of the formulations. The global demand for greater quantities and a certain standard of food has continued to encourage agrochemical use at the s...

This book offers a wide-ranging account of the emerging issues of international politics in the Artic, and the emerging Geopolitical debates that surround the region.

The annual global death toll from accidents at work far outstrips that accrued in acts of war or terrorism, but the phenomenon struggles to command anything like the prominence of these traditional priorities of international security in global politics. Whilst the 'securitization' of many non-military issues, such as climate change and disease, ha...

Climate change is literally and metaphorically bringing the Arctic in from the cold in international affairs with new economic opportunities emerging with the retreat of the ice sheets. Prominent amongst these is the prospect of previously inaccessible oil and gas sources in the High North becoming available for extraction.Aspate of extended mariti...

Introduction A global health world based on non-state actors has been evolving for as long as the state system and this is a process continuing towards an ever-more advanced form of global governance since it is a policy area that starkly exposes the limitations of sovereignty. The inappropriateness of the traditional high politics – low politics d...

Academic treatments of football have tended to focus either on the game's capacity to inspire xenophobic hooliganism amongst its followers or how it has been exploited by politicians for nationalistic purposes. This article seeks to readdress the imbalanced impression of football's social and political impact presented in this literature and in the...

The rise of limited global and regional governance marks a recognition from within that the sovereign state system is inadequate for the satisfaction of what must be the fundamental aim of political activity: making people as secure as possible. Unravelling globalization is not the route to human security, however. Rather it can be shown that the p...

Following the peaceful conclusion of the Cold War, many 'wideners' emerged in the Security Studies literature of the 1990s arguing that the subject now needed to embrace a more varied range of perceived threats to humankind, taking it well beyond the traditional focus on military threats emanating from other states. The apparent 'New World Order' s...

A number of international regimes have emerged in the last thirty years contributing to the global regulation of pesticides. These developments bear testimony to the work of pressure groups and epistemic communities in highlighting the environmentally polluting effects of hazardous pesticides, to which the regimes have contributed. However these re...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University, 1994.