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The Evolution of International Security Studies
Barry Buzan
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Description for The Evolution of International Security Studies
Paperback. The first intellectual history of International Security Studies since 1945, providing an unparalleled survey for students and scholars. Num Pages: 398 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558. 400 pages, 4 tables. The first intellectual history of International Security Studies since 1945, providing an unparalleled survey for students and scholars. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JPS. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight: 634.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521694223
SKU
V9780521694223
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About Barry Buzan
Barry Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Jilin. His books include: The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004); Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003, with Ole Wæver); The Arms Dynamic in World Politics ... Read more
Reviews for The Evolution of International Security Studies
'A rich text drawing on an extraordinarily wide range of materials to answer key questions in the debate on international security in the contemporary academic world: what should be part of International Security Studies, what should not, and why? This is a volume that will provoke enormous debate wherever international security is researched and taught, and is sure to become ... Read more