Security studies: a reader

This reader brings together key contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, offering students an informed overview of the most significant work in security studies. The editors chart the development of the key theoretical and empirical debates in security studies in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, introducing the ideas of the most influential 'past masters' and contemporary thinkers on security in the UK, US and elsewhere.

National security as an ambiguous symbol / Arnold Wolfers -- Redefining security / Richard Ullman -- The national security problem in international relations / Barry Buzan -- The concept of security / David Baldwin -- Security and emancipation / Ken Booth -- Feminism and security / J. Ann Tickner -- The Third World and security studies / Amitav Acharya -- Redefining security (2) / Jessica Tuchman Matthews -- Human security / Roland Paris -- The renaissance of security studies / Stephen M. Walt -- Securitisation / Ole Wæver -- The nemesis of utopianism / E.H. Carr -- A realist theory of international politics / Hans J. Morgenthau -- The concept of order in world politics / Hedley Bull -- Anarchic orders and balances of power / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Cooperation under the security dilemma / Robert Jervis -- The false promise of international institutions / John J. Mearsheimer -- Economics and the moral case for war / Norman Angell -- Neoliberal institutionalism / Robert Keohane -- Democratic peace / Michael W. Doyle -- Neo-Kantian perspective / Bruce Russett -- The social construction of power politics / Alexander Wendt -- Norms, identity and national security / Thomas U. Berger -- Nuc…