Understanding global security - Peter Hough

Acknowledgements
The idea for this book arose out of a general discussion with editorial staff from
Routledge, on their rounds gauging the opinions and research plans of lecturers.
When asked my thoughts on the sort of textbook I would like to see written for
International Relations teaching purposes the response to my ad-libbed proposal was
to say ‘why don’t you write it?’ Hence a general idea in the back of my mind was
prompted into fruition. I thus thank the staff at Routledge, and in particular Craig
Fowlie and Zoe Botterill, for their faith in this project and patience in waiting for me
to repay their faith.
In carrying out the research for this book a number of people and organizations
have been of assistance and deserve recognition. Paula Dunbar from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US government gave advice which
assisted me in Chapter 8. Kara McGee and other staff from the World Health
Organization’s Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention provided useful
guidance in collating data used in Chapter 9. My thanks are also extended to the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for permitting me to use some of
their data in Chapter 2. In addition, invaluable technical assistance, in retrieving
apparently lost work at a very late stage, was provided by Paul Lambillion and my
fullest appreciation goes out to him.
I am grateful to Tunc Aybak, Mohammed Al-Amin, Andy Frary, Angela Hough,
Dave Humphreys, Jeroen Warner and Lindsey Wright and for supplying me with
articles to read in the process of conducting my research. I am thankful also to Peter
Willetts, Mike Fleming and some anonymous reviewers who read drafts of the work
and some section and offered constructive advice. I presented a paper based on
Chapter 7 at a Middlesex University research seminar and received useful feedback
from several colleagues (June Burnham, Sarah Childs, Lesley Jordan, John Mason,
Suzanne McGregor and Rosemary Sales) and must thank them also.
My thanks also go out to my parents, Roy and Sandra, for giving me their old
computer on which to write much of this book and to my parents-in-law, Norman and
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