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Informationen zum Autor Barry Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Jilin. His books include: The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004); Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003, with Ole Wæver); The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998, with Eric Herring); Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1998, with Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde); People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1991) and An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations (1987). Klappentext The first intellectual history of International Security Studies since 1945! providing an unparalleled survey for students and scholars. Zusammenfassung Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen offer the first intellectual history of the development of International Security Studies (ISS). They provide an unparalleled survey of the literature! show how and why ISS evolved! and give an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS since 1945. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Defining International Security Studies; 2. The key questions in International Security Studies: the state, politics and epistemology; 3. The driving forces behind the evolution of International Security Studies; 4. Strategic studies, deterrence and the Cold War; 5. The Cold War challenge to national security; 6. International Security Studies post-Cold War: the traditionalists; 7. Widening and deepening security; 8. Responding to 9/11: a return to national security?; 9. Conclusions.
