Critical Security Studies And World Politics

by Booth, Ken

• ISBN13: 9781555878269
• ISBN10: 1555878261
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-12-31
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

An essential introduction to the new critical thinking about security, linking theory and politics.

Table of Contents

Critical explorations	p. 1
Security
Introduction to Part 1	p. 21
The contested concept of security	p. 27
Military force(s) and in/security	p. 63
Militarized masculinities and the politics of peacekeeping	p. 89
Community
Introduction to Part 2	p. 109
Political community and human society	p. 113
The missing link : security, critical international political economy, and community	p. 133
Questions of identity : Australia and Asia	p. 159
Emancipation
Introduction to Part 3	p. 181
Emancipation in the critical security studies project	p. 189
On emancipation : necessity, capacity, and concrete utopias	p. 215
Communal conflict and emancipation : the case of Northern Ireland	p. 237
Conclusion
Beyond critical security studies	p. 259
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