Security, Identity and Interests: A Sociology of International RelationsCambridge University Press, 4 nov 1999 - 239 páginas Bill McSweeney addresses the central problem of international relations - security - and constructs a novel framework for its analysis. He argues for the unity of the interpersonal, societal and international levels of human behaviour and outlines a concept of security which more adequately reflects the complexity and ambiguity of the topic. This book introduces a new way of theorizing the international order, within which the idea of security takes on a broader range of meaning, inviting a more critical and interpretative approach to understanding the concept and formulating security policy. The recent shift to sociology in international relations theory has not as yet realized its critical potential for the study of security. Drawing on contemporary trends in social theory, Dr McSweeney argues that human agency and moral choice are inherent features of the construction of the social and thus international order, and hence of our conception of security and security policy. |
Índice
The meaning of security | 13 |
Objectivist approaches to international security | 23 |
Early stages of development | 25 |
Broadening the concept of security | 45 |
Identity versus the state | 68 |
Theorizing security the turn to sociology | 79 |
A conceptual discussion | 81 |
The social constructionist approach | 101 |
Agency and structure in social theory | 138 |
Seeing a different world a reflexive sociology of security | 152 |
Practising security | 173 |
Doing security by stealth | 175 |
Conclusion Security and moral choice | 198 |
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The limits of identity theory | 126 |
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actors agents Alexander Wendt analysis anarchy Anthony Giddens approach Barry Buzan behaviour Belfast Agreement Berger and Luckmann Cambridge University Press causal chapter choice cognitive Cold Cold War collective identity complex concept of security condition constitute constraint constructivism cooperation critical Critical Security Studies dimension discussion domestic Durkheim economic Europe European integration focus foreign policy framework Garfinkel Harold Garfinkel human agency human needs Ibid idea identity and interests independent individual insecurity institutions interaction interdependence international order international politics international relations theory International Studies Irish Ken Booth Kenneth Waltz logic London material meaning military moral national security NATO neofunctionalism neorealism neorealist normative Northern Ireland object objectivist Ole Waever ontological peace process perspective political science practices question realist reflexive relationship role security and security security community security policy security problem sense social action social order social theory society sociology spillover theoretical theorists threats tion traditional unionist Waever Waltz Wendt