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Autore: | McCormack Tara |
Titolo: | Critique, security and power [[electronic resource] ] : the political limits to empanicipatory approaches / / Tara McCormack |
Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355/.033 |
Soggetto topico: | Security, International |
National security | |
Human rights | |
Critical theory | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Critique, security and power |
ISBN: | 1-282-28432-0 |
9786612284328 | |
0-203-87046-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777906103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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