Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases (Borderlines series)

✍ Scribed by Keith Krause, Michael Williams

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Series: Borderlines
• Edition: MINNE
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critical Security Studies was first published in 1997. Many of the most interesting issues in post-Cold War international relations can be usefully examined through a prism labeled "security studies." These issues include challenges to the state from "below" by ethnic and regional fragmentations, and from "above" by global economic, cultural, and environmental dynamics. This new volume brings together a diverse group of analysts seeking to explore these issues and contribute to the development of a self-consciously critical perspective within security studies. The contributors to this volume offer a range of essays that share the goal of establishing the grounds for a broad and reflective dialogue about the nature of security and the practice of security. Chapters address such topics as security-building in postapartheid South Africa, the discourse of security in post-Cold War Europe, the construction of the problem of weapons proliferation, and the role of multilateral institutions in peace and security operations. Operating on both conceptual and practical levels, Critical Security Studies directly engages substantive issues and questions of contemporary security studies in order to contribute to a theoretical reevaluation and practical reorientation of the field. Contributors: Amitav Acharya, York U, Toronto; Mohammed Ayoob, Michigan State U; Ken Booth, U of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK; Beverly Crawford, U of California, Berkeley; Simon Dalby, Carleton U, Ottawa; Karin M. Fierke, Nuffield College, Oxford U, UK; Bradley S. Klein, Clark U; Ronnie D. Lipschutz, U of California, Santa Cruz; David Mutimer, Keele U, UK; Thomas Risse-Kappen, U of Konstanz, Germany; Peter Vale, U of the Western Cape, South Africa; R. B. J. Walker, U of Victoria, British Columbia. Keith Krause is associate professor of political science at York University in Toronto. Michael C. Williams is a professor of international politics at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Copublished with the Uni

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface: Toward Critical Security Studies......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 24
PART I: Conceptual Debates and Approaches......Page 26
1. Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary Security Discourse......Page 28
2. From Strategy to Security: Foundations of Critical Security Studies......Page 58
3. The Subject of Security......Page 86
4. Security and Self: Reflections of a Fallen Realist......Page 108
5. Defining Security: A Subaltern Realist Perspective......Page 146
PART II: The Discourses of Security......Page 172
6. Discourses of War: Security and the Case of Yugoslavia......Page 174
7. Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation......Page 212
8. Changing Worlds of Security......Page 248
PART III: World Order and Regional Imperatives......Page 278
9. Between a New World Order and None: Explaining the Reemergence of the United Nations in World Politics......Page 280
10. The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies......Page 324
11. Critical Security Studies and Regional Insecurity: The Case of Southern Africa......Page 354
12. Conclusion: Every Month Is "Security Awareness Month"......Page 384
Contributors......Page 394
B......Page 398
F......Page 399
I......Page 400
N......Page 401
S......Page 402
V......Page 403
Z......Page 404