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Description of Critical Security Studies and World Politics

Realist assumptions of security studies increasingly have been challenged by an approach that places the human being, rather than the state, at the center of security concerns. This text is an indispensable statement of the ideas of this critical security project, written by some of its leading exponents. The book is structured around three concepts - security, community, and emancipation - that arguably are central to the future shape of world politics. Each of its three parts begins with a survey of key theoretical issues, followed by an investigation of current case material. The authors emphasize that critical security is about the problems of real people in real places, and about linking theory and practice. Throughout, they address the fundamental questions at the heart of critical thinking about security.

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ISBN:

9781555878269

Pages:

300 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

392554

Publisher:

Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc,US

Published:

31/12/2004

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Ken Booth is E.H. Carr Professor and head of the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His numerous publications include Strategy and Ethnocentrism, Contemporary Strategy: Theories and Policies and New Thinking About Strategy and International Security.

Contents of Critical Security Studies and World Politics

Critical Explorations - K. Booth. Security.
Introduction - K. Booth.
The Contested Concept of Security - S. Smith.
Military Power and In/security - G. Cheeseman.
Militarized Masculinities and the Politics of Peacekeeping - S. Whitworth.
Community. Introduction - K. Booth.
Political Community and Human Security - A. Linklater.
The Missing Link: Security, International Political Economy, and Community - R. Tooze.
Questions of Identity: Australia and Asia - J.J. Pettman.
Emancipation. Introduction - K. Booth.
Emancipation in the Critical Security Studies Project - H. Alker.
On Emancipation: Necessity, Capacity, and Concrete Utopias - R. Wyn Jones.
Communal Conflict and Emancipation: The Case of Northern Ireland - J. Ruane and J. Todd.
Conclusion. The Realities of Security - K. Booth.