Contemporary Security and Strategy

✍ Scribed by Craig Snyder

• Publisher: Macmillan Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Contemporary Security and Strategy....Pages 1-12
The Evolution of Strategic Thought....Pages 13-52
Realism and Security Studies....Pages 53-76
Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking and the New Security Studies....Pages 77-101
Regional Security Structures....Pages 102-119
Rationality and Deterrence in Theory and Practice....Pages 120-149
The Future of Nuclear Strategy....Pages 150-170
Nuclear Weapons Proliferation....Pages 171-193
Developments in Modern Warfare....Pages 194-209
Re-imagining Warfare: The ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’....Pages 210-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-243

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Military and Defence Studies