Critical Approaches To Security: An Introduction To Theories And Methods
by Laura J. Shepherd /
2013 / English / PDF
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Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook
offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical
perspectives and a variety of methodological
techniques.
Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook
offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical
perspectives and a variety of methodological
techniques.
With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and
an introduction that traces the development of critical
approaches to security, this textbook will encourage all those
who engage with it to develop a curiosity about the study and
practices of security politics. Challenging the assumptions of
conventional theories and approaches, unsettling that which was
previously taken for granted – these are among the ways in which
such a curiosity works. Through its attention to the fact that,
and the ways in which, security matters in global politics, this
work will both pioneer new ways of studying security and
acknowledge the noteworthy scholarship without which it could not
have been thought.
With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and
an introduction that traces the development of critical
approaches to security, this textbook will encourage all those
who engage with it to develop a curiosity about the study and
practices of security politics. Challenging the assumptions of
conventional theories and approaches, unsettling that which was
previously taken for granted – these are among the ways in which
such a curiosity works. Through its attention to the fact that,
and the ways in which, security matters in global politics, this
work will both pioneer new ways of studying security and
acknowledge the noteworthy scholarship without which it could not
have been thought.
This textbook will be essential reading to advanced undergraduate
and postgraduate students of critical security studies, and
highly recommended to students of traditional security studies,
International Relations and Politics.
This textbook will be essential reading to advanced undergraduate
and postgraduate students of critical security studies, and
highly recommended to students of traditional security studies,
International Relations and Politics.