Explores the tensions that arise when institutions address contemporary security threats.

Introduction: the expanded conception of security and institutions Hitoshi Nasu and Kim Rubenstein; Part I. Security and Institutional Evolution: 1. Conscious and unconscious security responses Alexandra Walker; 2. 'You cannot hold two watermelons in one hand': gender justice and anti-state local security institutions in Pakistan and Afghanistan Bina D'Costa; 3. Institutional competence and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union Anne McNaughton; 4. Building international maritime security institutions: public and private initiatives Chie Kojima; Part II. Security Institutions and the Rule of Law: 5. General principles of law and a source-based approach to the regulation of international security institutions Imogen Saunders; 6. The United Nations Security Council's legislative phase and the rise of emergency international law-making Anna Hood; 7. Institutional evolution in Africa and the 'peacekeeping institution' Hitoshi Nasu; 8. Security and the law in international and domestic institutions: lessons from Israel's border security Solon Solomon; Part III. Security Institutions and Legitimacy: 9. The evolution of the nuclear non-proliferation regime: the International Atomic Energy Agency and its legitimacy Kalman A. Robertson; 10. The World Health Organization, global health security, and international law Adam Kamradt-Scott; 11. The institutionalisation of dispute settlements in Southeast Asia: the legitimacy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in de-securitising trade and territorial disputes See Seng Tan; Part IV. Security Institutions and Regime Collision: 12. The Food and Agricultural Organization and food security in the context of international intellectual property rights protection Dilan Thampapillai; 13. Rice is life: regional food security, trade rules and the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve Michael Ewing-Chow, Melanie Vilarasau-Slade and Liu Gehuan; 14. Legal challenges to cyber security institutions Ottavio Quirico; 15. Concluding remarks Thomas Pogge.