Critique, Security and Power: The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780415485401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 166 str.

Tara McCormack

Opis

This text argues that rather than being a radical, critical perspective, much contemporary critical security theory and discourse in fact mirrors shifts in post-Cold War international and national security policy.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction  2. The Problem of Idealism: Critical and Emancipatory Security Theory in Context  3. ‘Theory is always for someone and for some purpose’: The Theoretical Limits of Critical and Emancipatory Theory  4. Critical Approaches to the Yugoslav Break-up and Wars  5. Domestic Exclusions: Citizenship and the State  6. International Exclusions: Re-Considering International Policy  7. Power and Agency in the Post-Pluralist Security Framework  8. Conclusion: The Political Limits to Critical and Emancipatory Approaches to Security and Conflict

O autorze

Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster.