Critical Security Studies and World Politics

"Highlights the strengths and weaknesses of current attempts to bring critical international relations scholarship to bear on the realist bastion of security studies."—Keith Krause, Political Studies Review

"This is a book for those who wish to take a more consciously critical approach in their research."—Choice

"An extraordinarily important contribution to the field of critical security studies, as well as international relations and social theory.... Critical Security Studies and World Politics should be read widely among students of politics ... regardless of specialization."—Franke Wilmer, Perspectives on Politics

"A spirited, passionate, and conceptually sophisticated expression of the critical studies school. The authors point to new ways of conceptualizing the world and understanding the factors and forces that are recasting the international landscape.... will be welcomed by scholars and students alike." —Fen Osler Hampson, Carleton University

• Critical Explorations—K. Booth.
• SECURITY.
• Introduction—K. Booth.
• The Contested Concept of Security—S. Smith.
• Military Forces and In/security—G. Cheeseman.
• Militarized Masculinities and the Politics of Peacekeeping—S. Whitworth.
• COMMUNITY.
• Introduction—K. Booth.
• Political Community and Human Security—A. Linklater.
• The Missing Link: Security, International Political Economy, and Community—R. Tooze.
• Questions of Identity: Australia and Asia—J.J. Pettman.
• EMANCIPATION.
• Introduction—K. Booth.
• Emancipation in the Critical Security Studies Project—H. Alker.
• On Emancipation: Necessity, Capacity, and Concrete Utopias—R. Wyn Jones.
• Communal Conflict and Emancipation: The Case of Northern Ireland—J. Ruane and J. Todd.
• CONCLUSION.
• Beyond Critical Security Studies—K. Booth.