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International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, 'new agenda' or critical.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• List of abbreviations(p. xii)
• List of figures(p. xv)
• List of tables(p. xvi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Defining International Security Studies(p. 8)
• Four questions that structure ISS(p. 10)
• Security and its adjacent concepts(p. 13)
• The disciplinary boundary of ISS(p. 16)
• The Western-centrism conundrum(p. 19)
• 2 The key questions in International Security Studies: the state, politics and epistemology(p. 21)
• From medieval to sovereign states(p. 22)
• The French Revolution and domestic cohesion(p. 26)
• The conception of politics in ISS(p. 30)
• Epistemology and security debates(p. 32)
• Mapping concepts of security(p. 35)
• 3 The driving forces behind the evolution of International Security Studies(p. 39)
• A post-Kuhnian sociology of science(p. 40)
• Internal versus external factors(p. 44)
• The theoretical status of the driving forces framework(p. 47)
• The five driving forces as general analytical categories(p. 50)
• Great power politics(p. 50)
• The technological imperative(p. 53)
• Events(p. 54)
• The internal dynamics of academic debates(p. 57)
• Institutionalisation(p. 60)
• 4 Strategic Studies, deterrence and the Cold War(p. 66)
• Great power politics: the Cold War and bipolarity(p. 68)
• The technological imperative: the nuclear revolution in military affairs(p. 73)
• The pressure of current affairs and 'events'(p. 83)
• The internal dynamics of academic debates(p. 87)
• 5 The Cold War challenge to national security(p. 101)
• Peace Research and Arms Control(p. 104)
• Great power politics: the Cold War and bipolarity(p. 106)
• The technological imperative: the nuclear revolution in military affairs(p. 109)
• Positive peace, integration and societal cohesion(p. 118)
• Structural violence, economics and the environment(p. 123)
• The internal dynamics of debates in Peace Research(p. 129)
• From peace to security: Common Security, Feminism and Poststructuralism(p. 135)
• Foregrounding 'security'(p. 135)
• Women as a particular group: the birth of Feminist Security Studies(p. 138)
• Linguistic approaches and Poststructuralism(p. 141)
• Institutionalisation(p. 145)
• Conclusions(p. 153)
• 6 International Security studies post-Cold War: the traditionalists(p. 156)
• The loss of a meta-event: surviving the Soviet Union(p. 159)
• International academic debates: state-centrism and epistemology(p. 162)
• Great power politics: a replacement for the Soviet Union?(p. 165)
• The technological imperative(p. 170)
• Regional security and non-Western events(p. 176)
• Institutionalisation(p. 182)
• Conclusions(p. 184)
• 7 Widening and deepening security(p. 187)
• Constructivisms: norms, identities and narratives(p. 191)
• Conventional Constructivism(p. 192)
• Critical Constructivism(p. 197)
• Beyond the (Western) state(p. 200)
• Post-colonialism(p. 200)
• Human Security(p. 202)
• Critical Security Studies(p. 205)
• Feminism(p. 208)
• Discursive security: the Copenhagen School and Poststructuralism(p. 212)
• The Copenhagen School and its critics(p. 212)
• Poststructuralism(p. 218)
• Institutionalisation(p. 221)
• Conclusions(p. 224)
• 8 Responding to 9/11: a return to national security?(p. 226)
• Traditionalist ISS post-9/11(p. 299)
• The traditionalist response to the Global War on Terrorism(p. 229)
• Continuities in traditionalist ISS after 2001(p. 234)
• Widening perspectives and the Global War on Terrorism(p. 243)
• Discourses and terrorist subjects(p. 243)
• Information technology, bio-security and risk(p. 248)
• Institutionalisation and the Global War on Terrorism(p. 251)
• Conclusions(p. 253)
• 9 Conclusions(p. 256)
• The changing shape of ISS(p. 258)
• Driving forces reconsidered(p. 261)
• The State and future of ISS: conversation or camps?(p. 262)
• The outlook for ISS(p. 265)
• Great power politics(p. 266)
• Events(p. 268)
• Technology(p. 269)
• Academic debates(p. 270)
• Institutionalisation(p. 271)
• References(p. 273)
• Author index(p. 365)
• Subject index(p. 368)