
Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
Alan Collins
Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the ...
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Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
Alan Collins (ed.)
Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the ...
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17. Economic Security
Gary M Shiffman
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter examines the concept of economic security as a framework for analysing and countering organized violence. It first provides a brief historical overview of the economic science ...
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17. Economic Security
Gary M. Shiffman
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter examines the concept of economic security as a framework for analysing and countering organized violence. It first provides a brief historical overview of the economic science ...
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4. Historical Materialism
Eric Herring
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter examines historical materialism and its approach to understanding what constitutes security. It begins with an overview of of the social scientific, philosophical, and ...
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9. Postcolonialism
Mark Laffey and Suthaharan Nadarajah
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter examines postcolonialism, a recent and increasingly influential set of positions and perspectives within the wider discipline of International Relations, and its implications ...
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Introduction: Strategy in the Contemporary World:: Strategy after 9/11
John Baylis and James J. Wirtz
in Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (5th edn)
This edition explores the role of military power in the contemporary world and the changes that have occurred over the last decade. It examines the debates about whether there has been a ...
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4. Historical Materialism
Eric Herring
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter examines historical materialism and its approach to understanding what constitutes security. It begins with an overview of of the social scientific, philosophical, and ...
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9. Postcolonialism
Mark Laffey and Suthaharan Nadarajah
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter examines postcolonialism, a recent and increasingly influential set of positions and perspectives within the wider discipline of International Relations, and its implications ...
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1. Introduction:: What is Security Studies?
Alan Collins
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This text provides an introduction to Security Studies, the sub-discipline of International Relations that deals with the study of security. War and the threat to use force are part of the ...
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28. After the Return to Theory:: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter reflects on the past and present of Security Studies, with a particular focus on the changing periods of theory production and practical problem solving. It begins by tracing ...
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1. Introduction: Strategy in the Contemporary World
John Baylis and James J. Wirtz
in Strategy in the Contemporary World Strategy in the Contemporary World (6th edn)
This book examines strategy in the contemporary world. Part I considers the enduring issues that animate the study of strategy and tackles topics ranging from the causes of war to questions ...
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6. Social Constructivism
Christine Agius
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter examines the impact of social constructivism on Security Studies as well as its critique of the assumed orthodoxy of rationalist approaches to security and the international ...
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7. Critical Security Studies:: A Schismatic History
David Mutimer
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter provides a partial history of the label ‘Critical Security Studies’ and the way it has developed and fragmented since the early 1990s. It considers the primary claims of the ...
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6. Social Constructivism
Christine Agius
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter examines the impact of social constructivism on Security Studies as well as its critique of the assumed orthodoxy of rationalist approaches to security and the international ...
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7. Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History
David Mutimer
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter provides a partial history of the label ‘Critical Security Studies’ and the way it has developed and fragmented since the early 1990s. It considers the primary claims of the ...
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28. After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter reflects on the past and present of Security Studies, with a particular focus on the changing periods of theory production and practical problem solving. It begins by tracing ...
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1. Introduction: What is Security Studies?
Alan Collins (ed.)
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This text provides an introduction to Security Studies, the sub-discipline of International Relations that deals with the study of security. War and the threat to use force are part of the ...
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8. Critical Interventions:: Subjects, Objects, and Security
J. Marshall Beier
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter explores some unconventional questions about somewhat unconventional subjects for Security Studies, a field that has traditionally been more inclined to focus on states in its ...
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5. Strategic Culture
Jeffrey S. Lantis and Darryl Howlett
in Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (5th edn)
This chapter examines the scholarly and policymaking relevance of strategic culture in the contemporary world. Strategic culture may challenge and at the same time enrich prevailing ...
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