Bill Mcsweeney, McSweeney Bill

Security, Identity and Interests

A Sociology of International Relations
Herausgeber: Smith, Steve

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The study of security has been dominated for four decades by a scientific perspective that has been under attack since the end of the Cold War. In this book, Bill McSweeney discusses the inadequacy of this approach and criticizes the most recent attempts to surmount it. Drawing on contemporary trends in sociology, he develops a theory of the international order within which the idea of security takes on a broader range of meaning, inviting a more interpretive approach to understanding the concept and formulating security policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521666305
• ISBN-10: 0521666309
• Artikelnr.: 21611256

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The meaning of security
Part I. Objectivist Approaches to International Security: 2. Early stages of development
3. Broadening the concept of security
4. Identity versus the state
Part II. Theorizing Security: the Turn to Sociology: 5. A conceptual discussion
6. The social constructionist approach
7. The limits of identity theory
8. Agency and structure in social theory
9. Seeing a different world: a reflexive sociology of security
Part III. Practising Security: 10. Doing security by stealth
11. Conclusion: security and moral choice
Bibliography
Index.