1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910896829603321

Titolo

Liège

Pubbl/distr/stampa

J. Lang

ISSN

3001-0578

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963792903321

Autore

McCormack Tara

Titolo

Critique, security and power : the political limits to empanicipatory approaches / / Tara McCormack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-282-28432-0

9786612284328

0-203-87046-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Routledge Critical Security Studies

Disciplina

355/.033

Soggetti

Security, International

National security

Human rights

Critical theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The problem of idealism: Critical and emancipatory security theory in context; 3 'Theory is always for someone and for some purpose': The theoretical limits of critical and emancipatory theory; 4 Critical approaches to the Yugoslav break-up and wars; 5 Domestic exclusions: Citizenship and the state; 6 International



exclusions: Re-considering international policy; 7 Power and agency in the post-pluralist security framework

8 Conclusion: The political limits to critical and emancipatory approaches to security and conflictNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations.In general, 'critical security' theories and dialogues are understood to be progressive theoretical frameworks that offer a trenchant evaluation and analysis of contemporary international and national security policy. Tara McCormack investigates the limitations of contemporary critical and emancipatory theorising and its r