Critique, Security and Power
Critique, Security and Power

Author: Tara McCormack

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1135202451

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This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations. In general, 'critical security' theories and dialogues are understood to be progressive theoretical frameworks that offer a trenchant evaluation and analysis of contemporary international and national security policy. Tara McCormack investigates the limitations of contemporary critical and emancipatory theorising and its relationship with contemporary power structures. Beginning with a theoretical critique and moving into a case study of the critical approaches to the break up of the former Yugoslavia, this book assesses the policies adopted by the international community at the time to show that much contemporary critical security theory and discourse in fact mirrors shifts in post-Cold War international and national security policy. Far from challenging international power inequalities and offering an emancipatory framework, contemporary critical security theory inadvertently ends up serving as a theoretical justification for an unequal international order. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, international relations and security studies. Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster.

Critique, Security and Power
Critique, Security and Power

Author: Tara McCormack

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 113520246X

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This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations. In general, 'critical security' theories and dialogues are understood to be progressive theoretical frameworks that offer a trenchant evaluation and analysis of contemporary international and national security policy. Tara McCormack investigates the limitations of contemporary critical and emancipatory theorising and its relationship with contemporary power structures. Beginning with a theoretical critique and moving into a case study of the critical approaches to the break up of the former Yugoslavia, this book assesses the policies adopted by the international community at the time to show that much contemporary critical security theory and discourse in fact mirrors shifts in post-Cold War international and national security policy. Far from challenging international power inequalities and offering an emancipatory framework, contemporary critical security theory inadvertently ends up serving as a theoretical justification for an unequal international order. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, international relations and security studies. Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster.

Critique of Security
Critique of Security

Author: Mark Neocleous

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-05-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0748632328

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This book brings together a range of diverse discussions about security in order to sustain a genuine critique of the subject. It is unique in its examination of the historical and political links between social security and national security and in its assessment of the way that emergency powers (as the most intense realisation of the rhetoric of 'national security') have been synthesised with 'normal' law.Among other ideas and concepts, Mark Neocleous discusses the place of security in the liberal tradition of political theory. Building on insights from Foucault and Marx, he argues that liberalism's central category is not liberty, but security. He also deals with the role of security in justifying the introduction and continuation of emergency powers through a historical excavation of the state of emergency, a political reading of the way emergency powers are only tangentially concerned with warfare, and a theoretical reading of the debate between Schmitt and Benjamin.

Critical Security Studies
Critical Security Studies

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2024-08-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Security in the 21st century goes beyond military threats. "Critical Security Studies" dives deep into this emerging field, empowering you to see security issues through a fresh lens. Why is it important? Traditional security studies focus on states and military might. Critical Security Studies expands this view, examining the human aspect, environmental threats, and how societies construct ideas of security. Understanding these nuances is crucial for navigating today's complex world. What will you learn? Chapter 1: Critical Security Studies: This chapter lays the foundation, introducing you to the core concepts and theoretical frameworks of the field. Chapters 2-5: Explore the foundational disciplines that inform Critical Security Studies, including Political Science, Social Science, International Relations, and International Relations Theory. Chapters 6 & 7: Delve into Comparative Politics and International Security, gaining a broader understanding of global political dynamics and traditional security concerns. Chapters 8-11: This section introduces Critical International Relations Theory, the Copenhagen School, Feminism in International Relations, and Television Studies, showcasing how critical perspectives challenge traditional narratives. Chapters 12 & 13: Social Psychology (sociology) and Systems Theory offer valuable tools to analyze how societies function and threats emerge. Chapters 14-17: Explore Sociology, the work of Anthony D. Burke, Feminist Ethics, and International Political Sociology, gaining insights into social structures, power dynamics, and the role of ethics in security. Chapters 18 & 19: Focus on Feminist Security Studies and the work of R. B. J. Walker, highlighting the gendered aspects of security and how women are disproportionately affected by conflict. Chapters 20 & 21: Critical Realism (philosophy of social sciences) and the work of Anna Leander equip you with the tools to critically analyze knowledge production and power structures in security studies. "Critical Security Studies" goes beyond textbooks, answering the public's most pressing questions on the subject. Packed with valuable insights, this book is your gateway to a deeper understanding of security in today's world.

Critical Perspectives on Human Security
Critical Perspectives on Human Security

Author: David Chandler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1136942319

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This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR. The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of Human Security, security policy practices seem to have transformed their goals and approaches, re-prioritising economic and social welfare issues that were marginal to the state-based geo-political rivalries of the Cold War era. Human Security has reflected and reinforced the reconceptualisation of international security, both broadening and deepening it, and, in so doing, it has helped extend and shape the space within which security concerns inform international policy practices. However, in its wider use, Human Security has become an amorphous and unclear political concept, seen by some as progressive and radical and by others as tainted by association with the imposition of neo-liberal practices and values on non-Western spaces or as legitimizing attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is concerned with critical perspectives towards Human Security, highlighting some of the tensions which can emerge between critical perspectives which discursively radicalise Human Security within frameworks of emancipatory possibility and those which attempt to deconstruct Human Security within the framework of an externally imposed attempt to regulate and order the globe on behalf of hegemonic power. The chapters gathered in this edited collection represent a range of critical approaches which bring together alternative understandings of human security. This book will be of great interest to students of human security studies and critical security studies, war and conflict studies and international relations.

Critical Security Methods
Critical Security Methods

Author: Claudia Aradau

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-13

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1134716192

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New approach to research methods and methodology in critical security studies Helps fill the gap in methodology literarture in critical security studies Well-established authors Will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, research methods, politics and IR

China, the US and the Power-Transition Theory
China, the US and the Power-Transition Theory

Author: Steve Chan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-09-12

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1134069839

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This volume analyzes the extent of ongoing power shifts among the leading powers, exploring the portents for their future growth, and seeking indicators of their relative commitment to the existing international order.

War Power, Police Power
War Power, Police Power

Author: Mark Neocleous

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-02-12

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0748692398

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In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous conducts a critical exploration of the ways in which war power and police power are intertwined in the form of state violence and exercised in social

Bounding Power
Bounding Power

Author: Daniel H. Deudney

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-12-16

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1400837278

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Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. Its main challenger, liberalism, looks to Kant and nineteenth-century economists. Despite their many insights, neither realism nor liberalism gives us adequate tools to grapple with security globalization, the liberal ascent, and the American role in their development. In reality, both realism and liberalism and their main insights were largely invented by republicans writing about republics. The main ideas of realism and liberalism are but fragments of republican security theory, whose primary claim is that security entails the simultaneous avoidance of the extremes of anarchy and hierarchy, and that the size of the space within which this is necessary has expanded due to technological change. In Daniel Deudney's reading, there is one main security tradition and its fragmentary descendants. This theory began in classical antiquity, and its pivotal early modern and Enlightenment culmination was the founding of the United States. Moving into the industrial and nuclear eras, this line of thinking becomes the basis for the claim that mutually restraining world government is now necessary for security and that political liberty cannot survive without new types of global unions. Unique in scope, depth, and timeliness, Bounding Power offers an international political theory for our fractious and perilous global village.