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

Informationen zum Autor Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Tara McCormack, Tara (University of Leicester Mccormack, McCormack Tara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2009
• EAN: 9780415485401
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48540-1
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies; Routledge Critical Security Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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