Critical Security Studies: Concepts And Strategies

by Krause,Keith

• ISBN13: 9781857287332
• ISBN10: 1857287339
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-04-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This text takes issue with arguments that security studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be

Table of Contents

Preface: Toward Critical Security Studies	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Conceptual Debates and Approaches	p. 1
Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary Security Discourse	p. 3
From Strategy to Security: Foundations of Critical Security Studies	p. 33
Notes	p. 53
The Subject of Security	p. 61
Security and Self: Reflections of a Fallen Realist	p. 83
Defining Security: a Subaltern Realist Perspective	p. 121
The Discourses of Security	p. 147
Discourses of War: Security and the Case of Yugoslavia	p. 149
Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation	p. 187
Changing Worlds of Security	p. 223
World Order and Regional Imperatives	p. 253
Between a New World Order and None: Explaining the Reemergence of the United Nations in World Politics	p. 255
The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies	p. 299
Critical Security Studies and Regional Insecurity: The Case of Southern Africa	p. 329
Conclusion: Every Month Is "Security Awareness Month"	p. 359
Contributors	p. 369
Index	p. 373
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