Critique, security and power : the political limits to empanicipatory approaches / Tara McCormack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormack, Tara.

Series:

Routledge critical security studies series.

Routledge Critical Security Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

National security.

Human rights.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 r

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 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 conflictNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-28432-0

9786612284328

0-203-87046-8

9780203870464

OCLC:

471702972