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Security
A Critical Introduction
ISBN/EAN: 9780230391963
Umbreit-Nr.: 2055634
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 296 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 12.12.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
- Zusatztext
- This major new text provides an accessible yet intellectually rigorous introduction to contemporary Security Studies. It focuses on eight fundamental debates relating to international security, integrating a wide range of empirical issues and theoretical approaches within its critical interrogation of these. An accessible, yet intellectually rigorous, overview of contemporary Security Studies, serving as the perfect introduction to the latest research on security discourses, threats and technologies.
- Kurztext
- Students will acquire state of the art knowledge of security studies, and conceptual tools to engage in critical reflection on peace and war, terrorism, human security, and other relevant phenomena Provides a question focused overview of security studies (rather than theory or issue focused), with each chapter focusing on one of security's big questions This structure encourages students to tease out of the connections between debates within Security Studies and broader social scientific and philosophical controversies Pedagogical features include: o Key points boxes o Guides to further reading o Detailed glossary
- Autorenportrait
- Lee Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in International Security at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has articles published in a range of top journals including Security Dialogue, Political Studies, Millennium, and International Relations. He is author of Times of Terror: Discourse, Temporality and the War on Terror, and co-author of Terrorism: A Critical Introduction. The latter was awarded a 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award. Jack Holland is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Surrey, UK. His research is on critical approaches to foreign and security policy, with a focus on the US, UK and Australia after 9/11. He is the author of Selling the War on Terror (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of Obama's Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2014). He has published articles in the European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Security, Australian Journal of Political Science, Politics, and Millennium Journal of International Studies.