Security
A Critical Introduction
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Beschreibung
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.
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
Autor*in
Lee Jarvis
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