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  Security Studies: An Introduction (Paperback) Edited by Paul D. Williams

  

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  Short Description for Security StudiesGives students an overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes and significant issues within security studies. This book explores the main theoretical approaches used within the field from realism to international political sociology. It explains the concepts underpinning contemporary debates from the security dilemma to terrorism.
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  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
  • Published: 23 September 2008
  • Format: Paperback 568 pages
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  • Categories: Politics & Government | Central Government Policies | Military Engineering
  • ISBN 13: 9780415425629 ISBN 10: 041542562X
  • Sales rank: 30,948

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• "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 new teaching tool for undergraduates and MA students by collecting these related strands of the field together into a single coherent textbook.