Critical Approaches to International SecurityJohn Wiley & Sons, 2015 M03 6 - 320 pages During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new challenges to international stability, such as environmental degradation, immigration and terrorism. The second edition of this popular and highly respected text offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of the growing field of critical security studies. All the chapters have been fully revised and updated to map the on-going evolution of debates about international security since 1989, including the more recent shift in emphasis from critiques of the realist practices of states to those of global liberal governance. Topics covered include the relationship between security and change, identity, the production of danger, fear and trauma, human insecurity and emancipation. The book explores the meaning and use of these concepts and their relevance to real-life situations ranging from the War on Terror to the Arab Spring, migration, suffering in war, failed states and state-building, and the changing landscape of the international system, with the emergence of a multipolar world and the escalation of global climate change. Written with verve and clarity and incorporating new seminar activities and questions for class discussion, this book will be an invaluable resource for students of international relations and security studies. |
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... focused on debates over the meaning, dynamics and application of concepts, debates that have often taken place across these categories. This approach may seem unsettling, in so far as the labels are often an indicator of specific types ...
... focused on debates over the meaning, dynamics and application of concepts, debates that have often taken place across these categories. This approach may seem unsettling, in so far as the labels are often an indicator of specific types ...
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... critical intervention. There are two broad strands of thinking that go a step beyond the methodological critique. One focuses on the process by which security practices eliminate the contestation of politics. Politics and security.
... critical intervention. There are two broad strands of thinking that go a step beyond the methodological critique. One focuses on the process by which security practices eliminate the contestation of politics. Politics and security.
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... focuses on the possibility of emancipation from technologies of power/knowledge and the opening of spaces for alternative voices and possibilities. As already suggested, these various positions do not fit neatly into the categories of ...
... focuses on the possibility of emancipation from technologies of power/knowledge and the opening of spaces for alternative voices and possibilities. As already suggested, these various positions do not fit neatly into the categories of ...
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... focusing in particular on the Arab Spring. Chapter 4 explores a concept of identity as a point of departure for exploring different methods of critical analysis related to the performance of security. Identity was not an issue for ...
... focusing in particular on the Arab Spring. Chapter 4 explores a concept of identity as a point of departure for exploring different methods of critical analysis related to the performance of security. Identity was not an issue for ...
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... focusing less on the suspension of 'normal' politics than on the everyday institutional practices of security, on the one hand, or governance within a permanent 'state of exception', on the other. These ideas are explored in relation to ...
... focusing less on the suspension of 'normal' politics than on the everyday institutional practices of security, on the one hand, or governance within a permanent 'state of exception', on the other. These ideas are explored in relation to ...
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