Critical Security Studies: Concepts and CasesU of Minnesota Press, 2005 |
Contents
The Discourses of Security | 147 |
World Order and Regional Imperatives | 253 |
Contributors | 369 |
Index | 373 |
Other editions - View all
Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases Keith Krause,Michael Charles Williams Limited preview - 1997 |
Critical Security Studies: Concepts And Strategies Keith Krause,Michael C. Williams Limited preview - 2002 |
Critical Security Studies: Concepts And Strategies Keith Krause,Michael C. Williams Limited preview - 2002 |
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Page 100 - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
Page 124 - Lippmann's words, a nation is secure to the extent to which it is not in danger of having to sacrifice core values, if it wishes to avoid war, and is able, if challenged, to maintain them by victory in such a war.2 What this definition implies is that security rises and falls with the ability of a nation to deter an attack, or to defeat it.
Page xi - It takes the world as it finds it, with the prevailing social and power relationships and the institutions into which they are organized, as the given framework for action.
Page 90 - I" is the response of the organism to the attitudes of the others; the "me" is the organized set of attitudes of others which one himself assumes. The attitudes of the others constitute the organized "me," and then one reacts toward that as an "I.
Page 134 - ... countries do not become mature democracies overnight. More typically, they go through a rocky transitional period, where democratic control over foreign policy is partial, where mass politics mixes in a volatile way with authoritarian elite politics, and where democratization suffers reversals. In this transitional phase of democratization, countries become more aggressive and war-prone, not less, and they do fight wars with democratic states.
Page 291 - Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981); Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (New York: Random House, 1987). See also Charles Doran and Wes Parsons, "War and the Cycle of Relative Power...
Page 44 - We are clearly witnessing what is probably an irresistible shift in public attitudes towards the belief that the defense of the oppressed in the name of morality should prevail over frontiers and legal documents.
Page xi - It is critical in the sense that it stands apart from the prevailing order of the world and asks how that order came about. Critical theory, unlike problem-solving theory, does not take institutions and social and power relations for granted but calls them into question by concerning itself with their origins and how and whether they might be in the process of changing.
Page 252 - Yet, because — in another of those paradoxes, along with painted feelings and unconsequenced acts, which haunt aesthetics — that subjectivity does not properly exist until it is thus organized, art forms generate and regenerate the very subjectivity they pretend only to display. Quartets, still lifes, and cockfights are not merely reflections of a pre-existing sensibility analogically represented; they are positive agents in the creation and maintenance of such a sensibility.
Page 191 - ... which progress in these areas can make to the maintenance of international peace and security. They express their commitment to take concrete steps to enhance the effectiveness of the United Nations in these areas. The members of the Council underline the need for all Member States to fulfil their obligations in relation to arms control and disarmament; to prevent the proliferation in all its aspects of all weapons of mass destruction; to avoid excessive and destabilizing accumulations and transfers...