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Critical Security Studies was first published in 1997. Many of the most interesting issues in post-Cold War international relations can be usefully examined through a prism labeled “security studies.” These issues include challenges to the state from “below” by ethnic and regional fragmentations, and from “above” by global economic, cultural, and environmental dynamics. This new volume brings together a diverse group of analysts seeking to explore these issues and contribute to the development of a self-consciously critical perspective within security studies. The contributors to this volume offer a range of essays that share the goal of establishing the grounds for a broad and reflective dialogue about the nature of security and the practice of security. Chapters address such topics as security-building in postapartheid South Africa, the discourse of security in post-Cold War Europe, the construction of the problem of weapons proliferation, and the role of multilateral institutions in peace and security operations.Operating on both conceptual and practical levels, Critical Security Studies directly engages substantive issues and questions of contemporary security studies in order to contribute to a theoretical reevaluation and practical reorientation of the field.

Contributors: Amitav Acharya, York U, Toronto; Mohammed Ayoob, Michigan State U; Ken Booth, U of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK; Beverly Crawford, U of California, Berkeley; Simon Dalby, Carleton U, Ottawa; Karin M. Fierke, Nuffield College, Oxford U, UK; Bradley S. Klein, Clark U; Ronnie D. Lipschutz, U of California, Santa Cruz; David Mutimer, Keele U, UK; Thomas Risse-Kappen, U of Konstanz, Germany; Peter Vale, U of the Western Cape, South Africa; R. B. J. Walker, U of Victoria, British Columbia. Keith Krause is associate professor of political science at York University in Toronto. Michael C. Williams is a professor of international politics at Aberystwyth University, Wales.Copublished with the University College London Press

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, About the Series, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface: Toward Critical Security Studies
  2. MICHAEL C. WILLIAMS, KEITH KRAUSE
  3. pp. vii-xxii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xxiii
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  1. PART I: Conceptual Debates and Approaches
  1. 1. Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary Security Discourse
  2. SIMON DALBY
  3. pp. 3-32
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  1. 2. From Strategy to Security: Foundations of Critical Security Studies
  2. KEITH KRAUSE, MICHAEL C. WILLIAMS
  3. pp. 33-60
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  1. 3. The Subject of Security
  2. R. B. J. WALKER
  3. pp. 61-82
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  1. 4. Security and Self: Reflections of a Fallen Realist
  2. KEN BOOTH
  3. pp. 83-120
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  1. 5. Defining Security: A Subaltern Realist Perspective
  2. MOHAMMED AYOOB
  3. pp. 121-146
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  1. PART II: The Discourses of Security
  1. 6. Discourses of War: Security and the Case of Yugoslavia
  2. BEVERLY CRAWFORD, RONNIE D. LIPSCHUT
  3. pp. 149-186
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  1. 7. Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation
  2. DAVID MUTIMER
  3. pp. 187-222
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  1. 8. Changing Worlds of Security
  2. KARIN M. FIERKE
  3. pp. 223-252
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  1. PART III: World Order and Regional Imperatives
  1. 9. Between a New World Order and None: Explaining the Reemergence of the United Nations in World Politics
  2. THOMAS RISSE-KAPPEN
  3. pp. 255-298
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  1. 10. The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies
  2. AMITAV ACHARYA
  3. pp. 299-328
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  1. 11. Critical Security Studies and Regional Insecurity: The Case of Southern Africa
  2. KEN BOOTH AND PETER VALE
  3. pp. 329-358
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  1. 12. Conclusion: Every Month Is "Security Awareness Month"
  2. BRADLEY S. KLEIN
  3. pp. 359-368
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 369-372
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 373-379
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