Security Studies by Paul D Williams
Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. It gives students a detailed overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes and most significant issues within security studies. Part 1 explores the main theoretical approaches currently used within the field from realism to international political sociology. Part 2 explains the central concepts underpinning contemporary debates from the security dilemma to terrorism. Part 3 presents an overview of the institutional security architecture currently influencing world politics using international, regional and global levels of analysis. Part 4 examines some of the key contemporary challenges to global security from the arms trade to energy security. Part 5 discusses the future of security. Security Studies provides a valuable teaching tool for undergraduates and MA students by collecting these related strands of the field together into a single coherent textbook.
Paul D. Williams is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, USA. He is author of British Foreign Policy under New Labour, 1997-2005 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005), co-author of Understanding Peacekeeping (Polity, 2004) and co-editor of Africa in International Politics (Routledge, 2004) and Peace Operations and Global Order (Routledge, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415425629 |
| ISBN 10 | 041542562X |
| Title | Security Studies |
| Author | Paul D Williams |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
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