Security and international relations /
This new textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory. The author argues that only an interdisciplinary approach to security, drawing on the insights of each perspective, can meet the rigorous requirements of testable theory and the practical needs of actors in an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Themes in international relations.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Introduction to international security and security studies. International relations and international security: boundaries, levels of analysis, and falsifying theories ; The foundations of security studies: Hobbes, Clausewitz, and Thucydides ; Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War.
- pt. 2. Contending security theories. Realism, neorealism and liberal institutionalism ; Economic liberalism and Marxism.
- pt. 3. Validating security theories. Behaviorism ; Constructivism.
- Conclusions. Whither international security and security studies?