Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of threat, to a post-Cold War rationality of risk . However, in "Risk and Securitization in Japan, 1945-1960, "Piers R. Williamson argues that this assumption of a shift in rationality stems from a fundamental failure to distinguish between the concepts of threat and risk.
By clarifying the concepts of threat and risk, this book challenges the prevailing hypothesis of a shift from threat to risk with the end of the Cold War, and in doing so presents a new...
Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of threat, to a post-C...