Critique, Security and Power - The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches

This text argues that rather than being a radical, critical perspective, much contemporary critical security theory and discourse in fact mirrors shifts in post-Cold War international and national security policy.

List of contents

Preface 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 Conflict

About the author

Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tara McCormack, Tara (University of Leicester Mccormack, McCormack Tara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2013
• EAN: 9780415852982
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85298-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies; Routledge Critical Security Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, Warfare & defence, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict