This text takes issue with arguments that security studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be studied through a prism labelled "security studies". The book combines chapters which provide a variety of critical perspectives on the discipline and address a diverse range of theoretical concerns, with chapters that examine such substantive issues as weapons proliferation and the changing meaning of "security" for actors in the erstwhile conflict between East and West.
Author(s): Keith Krause Gr
Edition: 1
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 408
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface: Toward Critical Security Studies......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 24
Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary Security Discourse......Page 28
From Strategy to Security: Foundations of Critical Security Studies......Page 58
The Subject of Security......Page 86
Security and Self: Reflections of a Fallen Realist......Page 108
Defining Security: A Subaltern Realist Perspective......Page 146
Discourses of War: Security and the Case of Yugoslavia......Page 174
Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation......Page 212
Changing Worlds of Security......Page 248
Between a New World Order and None: Explaining the Reemergence of the United Nations in World Politics......Page 280
The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies......Page 324
Critical Security Studies and Regional Insecurity: The Case of Southern Africa......Page 354
Conclusion: Every Month Is ~Security Awareness Month~......Page 384
Contributors......Page 394
Index......Page 398
