Critical Security Studies and World Politics

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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. This 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 bout linking theory and practice. Throughout, they address the fundamental questions at the heart of critical thinking about security.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ken Booth

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, International Theory: Postivism and Beyond, and Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order.

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Title
Critical Security Studies and World Politics
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8130901862
Length
xi+323p., Notes; Bibliography; Index; 24cm.
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