Security studies today / Terry Terriff ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Terriff, Terry, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security.

International relations.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

234 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Summary:

Security Studies Today is the first book to examine the range of thinking about security that has emerged from the field over the past fifteen years. It begins by examining the centrality of security issues in the discipline of international relations, and then outlines in turn varying perspectives on security: realism, peace studies, gender studies, and post-positivism. The book then details the non-traditional threats that have been brought into the security debate, including the environment, economics, transnational criminal organizations, and population movements. Throughout the study, the authors focus on two questions central to current security debates: What is to be protected, and what is it to be protected from?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-227) and index.

ISBN:

0745617727

0745617735

OCLC:

42296127