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Informationen zum Autor Edward A. Kolodziej is Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also the first Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at Illinois. Professor Kolodziej has written or edited thirteen books on security and foreign policy. His latest publication is an edited volume, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights (2003). Klappentext Presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory! providing a valuable new survey of the subject. Zusammenfassung This textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory. The author argues that only an interdisciplinary approach to security! drawing on the insights of each perspective! can meet the rigorous requirements of testable theory and the practical needs of actors in an increasingly globalizing world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction to International Security and Security Studies: 1. International relations and international security: boundaries, levels of analysis, and falsifying theories; 2. The foundations of security studies: Hobbes, Clausewitz and Thucydides; 3. Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War; Part II. Contending Security Theories: 4. Realism, neo-realism and liberal institutionalism; 5. Economic liberalism and Marxism; Part III. Validating Security Theories: 6. Behaviorism; 7. Constructivism; Conclusions: 8. Whither international security and security studies?
