Critique, Security and Power: The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches

by Mccormack; Tara

• ISBN13: 9780415485401
• ISBN10: 0415485401
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The problem of idealism: Critical and emancipatory security theory in context	p. 19
'Theory is always for someone and for some purpose': The theoretical limits of critical and emancipatory theory	p. 41
Critical approaches to the Yugoslav break-up and wars	p. 62
Domestic exclusions: Citizenship and the state	p. 81
International exclusions: Re-considering international policy	p. 100
Power and agency in the post-pluralist security framework	p. 119
Conclusion: The political limits to critical and emancipatory approaches to security and conflict	p. 135
Notes	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 145
Index	p. 159
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