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  • Category: Books (Political Science)
  • Author:  Kolodziej, Edward A.
  • Author:  Kolodziej, Edward A.
  • ISBN-10:  0521001161
  • ISBN-10:  0521001161
  • ISBN-13:  9780521001168
  • ISBN-13:  9780521001168
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  362
  • Pages:  362
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2005
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2005
  • SKU:  0521001161-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0521001161-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101444600
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Presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing a valuable new survey of the subject.This textbook helps students to identify and discuss the main issues in international security today. It evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key assumptions in explaining why states use or chose not to use force to get their way. Each school is tested in terms of its capacity to explain the rise and demise of the Cold War and to address the security challenges confronting the peoples and states of the twenty-first century. The book also contains essay questions and guides to further reading.This textbook helps students to identify and discuss the main issues in international security today. It evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key assumptions in explaining why states use or chose not to use force to get their way. Each school is tested in terms of its capacity to explain the rise and demise of the Cold War and to address the security challenges confronting the peoples and states of the twenty-first century. The book also contains essay questions and guides to further reading.Helping students identify and discuss main issues in international security today, this book evaluates the contending schools of thought and their key assumptions. It explains why states use-- or chose not to use--force to promote their causes. Each philosophy is tested in terms of its capacity to explain the rise and demise of the Cold War and to address the security challenges confronting the peoples and states of the twenty-first century. The book also contains essay questions and guides to further reading.Part I. Introduction to International Security and Security Studies: 1. International relations and international security: boundaries, levels of analysis, and falsifying theories; 2. The foundations of security studies: Hobbes, Clausewitz and Thucydides; 3. Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War; PlC"
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