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New Security Challenges Series
General Editor: Stuart Croft, Professor of International Security in the Department of
Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and Director of the
ESRC’s New Security Challenges Programme.
The last decade demonstrated that threats to security vary greatly in their causes and
manifestations, and that they inviteinterest and demand responses from the social
sciences, civil society and a very broad policy community. In the past, the avoidance of
war was the primary objective, but with the end of the Cold War the retention of military
defence as the centrepiece of international security agenda became untenable. There has
been, therefore, a significant shift in emphasis away from traditional approaches tosecurity to a new agenda that talks of the softer side of security, in terms of human
security, economic security and environmental security. The topical New Security
Challenges Series reflects this pressing political and research agenda.

Titles include:
Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood and Peter Rogers
THE EVERYDAY RESILIENCE OF THE CITY
How Cities Respond to Terrorism and DisasterChristopher Farrington (editor)
GLOBAL CHANGE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE PROCESS
Implementing the Political Settlement
Kevin Gillan, Jenny Pickerill and Frank Webster
ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM
New Media and Protest in the Information Age
Andrew Hill
RE-IMAGINING THE WAR ON TERROR
Seeing, Waiting, Travelling
Andrew Hoskins and Ben O’Loughlin
TELEVISION AND TERROR
Conflicting Times andthe Crisis of News Discourse
Bryan Mabee
THE GLOBALIZATION OF SECURITY
State Power, Security Provision and Legitimacy
Janne Haaland Matlary
EUROPEAN UNION SECURITY DYNAMICS
In the New National Interest
Michael Pugh, Neil Cooper and Mandy Turner (editors)
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PEACEBUILDING
Brian Rappert and Chandré Gould (editors)
BIOSECURITY
Origins,Transformations and Practices
Brian Rappert
BIOTECHNOLOGY, SECURITY AND THE SEARCH FOR LIMITS
An Inquiry into Research and Methods
Brian Rappert (editor)
TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY
Governing Threats in the New Millennium
New Security Challenges Series
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Biosecurity
Origins, Transformations and Practices
Edited byBrian Rappert
Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs
University of Exeter, UK

and
Chandré Gould
Senior Researcher
Institute for Security Studies, South Africa

Editorial matter, selection, introduction and conclusion © Brian Rappert and
Chandré Gould 2009
All remaining chapters © respective authors 2009
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