The evolution of international security studies

"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 rivalr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buzan, Barry
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Hansen, Lene, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining international security studies
  • The key questions in international security studies : the state, politics, and epistemology
  • The driving forces behind the evolution of international security studies
  • Strategic studies, deterrence, and the Cold War
  • The Cold War challenge to national security
  • International security studies post-Cold War : the traditionalists
  • Widening and deepening security
  • Responding to 9/11 : a return to national security?.