International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, 'new agenda' or critical.
Author(s): Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 400
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 14
Figures......Page 17
Tables......Page 18
Introduction......Page 19
1 Defining International Security Studies......Page 26
Four questions that structure ISS......Page 28
Security and its adjacent concepts......Page 31
The disciplinary boundary of ISS......Page 34
The Western-centrism conundrum......Page 37
2 The key questions in International Security Studies: the state, politics and epistemology......Page 39
From medieval to sovereign states......Page 40
The French Revolution and domestic cohesion......Page 44
The conception of politics in ISS......Page 48
Epistemology and security debates......Page 50
Mapping concepts of security......Page 53
3 The driving forces behind the evolution of International Security Studies......Page 57
A post-Kuhnian sociology of science......Page 58
Internal versus external factors......Page 62
The theoretical status of the driving forces framework......Page 65
Great power politics......Page 68
The technological imperative......Page 71
Events......Page 72
The internal dynamics of academic debates......Page 75
Institutionalisation......Page 78
4 Strategic Studies, deterrence and the Cold War......Page 84
Great power politics: the Cold War and bipolarity......Page 86
The technological imperative: the nuclear revolution in military affairs......Page 91
The pressure of current affairs and 'events'......Page 101
The internal dynamics of academic debates......Page 105
Institutionalisation......Page 109
Conclusions......Page 116
5 The Cold War challenge to national security......Page 119
Peace Research and Arms Control......Page 122
Great power politics: the Cold War and bipolarity......Page 124
The technological imperative: the nuclear revolution in military affairs......Page 127
Positive peace, integration and societal cohesion......Page 136
Structural violence, economics and the environment......Page 141
The internal dynamics of debates in Peace Research......Page 147
Foregrounding ‘security’......Page 153
Women as a particular group: the birth of Feminist Security Studies......Page 156
Linguistic approaches and Poststructuralism......Page 159
Institutionalisation......Page 163
Conclusions......Page 171
6 International Security Studies post-Cold War: the traditionalists......Page 174
The loss of a meta-event: surviving the Soviet Union......Page 177
Internal academic debates: state-centrism and epistemology......Page 180
Great power politics: a replacement for the Soviet Union?......Page 183
The technological imperative......Page 188
Regional security and non-Western events......Page 194
Institutionalisation......Page 200
Conclusions......Page 202
7 Widening and deepening security......Page 205
Constructivisms: norms, identities and narratives......Page 209
Conventional Constructivism......Page 210
Critical Constructivism......Page 215
Post-colonialism......Page 218
Human Security......Page 220
Critical Security Studies......Page 223
Feminism......Page 226
The Copenhagen School and its critics......Page 230
Poststructuralism......Page 236
Institutionalisation......Page 239
Conclusions......Page 242
8 Responding to 9/11: a return to national security?......Page 244
The traditionalist response to the Global War on Terrorism......Page 247
Continuities in traditionalist ISS after 2001......Page 252
Discourses and terrorist subjects......Page 261
Information technology, bio-security and risk......Page 266
Institutionalisation and the Global War on Terrorism......Page 269
Conclusions......Page 271
9 Conclusions......Page 274
The changing shape of ISS......Page 276
Driving forces reconsidered......Page 279
The state and future of ISS: conversation or camps?......Page 280
The outlook for ISS......Page 283
Great power politics......Page 284
Events......Page 286
Technology......Page 287
Academic debates......Page 288
Institutionalisation......Page 289
References......Page 291
Author Index......Page 383
Subject Index......Page 386
