Record Nr.

UNINA9910451290903321

Autore

Booth Ken <1943->

Titolo

Theory of world security / / Ken Booth [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN


1-107-17481-3
1-281-24327-2
9786611243272
0-511-84021-7
0-511-37784-3
0-511-37693-6
0-511-37599-9
0-511-37449-6
0-511-37873-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 489 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in international relations ; ; 105

Disciplina

327.1701

Soggetti

Security, International - Philosophy

World politics - 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Context: 1. Present imperfect: future tense; 2. Thinking theory critically; Part II. Theory: 3. Security, emancipation, community; 4. Deepening, broadening, reconstructing; 5. Being, knowing, doing; 6. The world, the world; Part III: Dimensions: 7. Business-as-usual; 8. Who will the twenty-first century be for?; Part IV: Futures: 9. The new twenty years' crisis; 10. A long hot century.

Sommario/riassunto

What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative thinking, Ken Booth explores security as a precious instrumental value which gives individuals and groups the opportunity to pursue the invention of humanity rather than live determined and diminished lives. Booth suggests that human society globally is facing a set of

converging historical crises. He looks to critical social theory and radical international theory to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding the historical challenges facing global business-as-usual and for planning to reconstruct a more cosmopolitan future. Theory of World Security is a challenge both to well-established ways of thinking about security and alternative approaches within critical security studies.