Security and International Relations
Series: Themes in International Relations;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 1 September 2005
- ISBN 9780521001168
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages362 pages
- Size 228x154x26 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 tables 0
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Short description:
Presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing a valuable new survey of the subject.
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This textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing readers with the critical conceptual tools to develop their expertise. The author evaluates the claims of rival theories - realism, neorealism, liberal institutionalism, classical economic liberalism, and Marxism - to explain why international actors choose or eschew force and coercive threats in order to elicit favorable outcomes in their interdependent exchanges. Also discussed are behaviorism and constructivism, contesting approaches to validate prevailing security paradigms. The author argues that only an interdisciplinary approach to security, drawing on the insights of each perspective, can meet the rigorous requirements of testable theory and the practical needs of actors in an increasingly globalizing world. The book will provide students and scholars of international relations and security studies with a valuable survey of the subject, and includes essay questions and guides to further reading.
'This is a valuable resource for scholars as well as a text for students. It is the most comprehensive survey of alternative ways of thinking about international security available. Maintaining theoretical and methodological rigor while integrating security studies into the larger field of international relations is a monumental achievement.' David A. Baldwin, Columbia University
Table of Contents:
Part I. Introduction to International Security and Security Studies: 1. International relations and international security: boundaries, levels of analysis, and falsifying theories; 2. The foundations of security studies: Hobbes, Clausewitz and Thucydides; 3. Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War; Part II. Contending Security Theories: 4. Realism, neo-realism and liberal institutionalism; 5. Economic liberalism and Marxism; Part III. Validating Security Theories: 6. Behaviorism; 7. Constructivism; Conclusions: 8. Whither international security and security studies?
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