Contemporary Security Studies Alan Collins Limited preview - 2013. Contemporary Security Studies Alan Collins No preview available - 2012.
This major new textbook brings together key scholars to introduce students to the fast-evolving field of security studies. The book is divided into three sections: differing approaches to the study of security; the broadening and deepening of security; and a range of traditional and non-traditional issues that have emerged on the security agenda. The study of internationa This major new textbook brings together key scholars to introduce students to the fast-evolving field of security studies.
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The book is divided into three sections: differing approaches to the study of security; the broadening and deepening of security; and a range of traditional and non-traditional issues that have emerged on the security agenda. The study of international security has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War. While war and the threat to use force is part of the security equation it is not exclusively so. Security studies encompasses dangers that range from pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, and environmental degradation through to the more readily associated security concerns of direct violence, such as terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. Accessible and easy to use, Contemporary Security Studies is essential reading for all students new to international security. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Center.
Student resources: Case studies on the Iraq War, Zimbabwe, migration and North Korea Web links Multiple Choice Questions Flashcard glossary Lecturer resources: PowerPoint slides. This was for my class on international security and did provide insight to the realm of IS, however I think that it was only used in class because my professor had a chapter he wrote in it. He didn't really use it much other than a few other chapters. I think he did this only to increase circulation. It was usually well written, but with different authors for different chapters leaves plenty variation. Stan Taylor from BYU had a chapter in it about the CIA and information gathering, but at times This was for my class on international security and did provide insight to the realm of IS, however I think that it was only used in class because my professor had a chapter he wrote in it. He didn't really use it much other than a few other chapters.
I think he did this only to increase circulation. It was usually well written, but with different authors for different chapters leaves plenty variation. Stan Taylor from BYU had a chapter in it about the CIA and information gathering, but at times it seemed childishly written but in the end covered the topic generally well. I wished I wouldn't have bought it however.
My posts haven’t been very prolific lately, but I decided I would wait until I had written something new and original before I posted again. This is an essay on Critical Security Studies, written as part of the Master of International Relations course I am currently undertaking. It is a lot more theoretical than my usual posts. Critical Security Studies and the Deconstruction of Realist Hegemony. David Alexander Robinson Though still marginal within the field of International Relations, over the last two decades a paradigm of Critical Security Studies has developed that challenges traditional definitions of ‘security’ and emphasises the socially-constructed nature of state identities and international systems. This essay will examine the key elements of the critical security approach with particular focus on the ‘Copenhagen School’ – which calls for a broadening of the concept of ‘security’ and highlights the process of ‘securitization’ of political issues – and the ‘Welsh School’, which draws on Marxism and Critical Theory to create a self-consciously activist approach that emphasises ‘emancipation’.
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