Brings together a diverse new group of analysts seeking to explore issues of international relations and contribute to the development of a self-consciously critical perspective within security studies
Preface: Toward Critical Security Studies ; Acknowledgments ; PART I: Conceptual Debates and Approaches ; 1. Contesting an Essential Concept: Reading the Dilemmas in Contemporary Security Discourse ; 2. From Strategy to Security: Foundations of Critical Security Studies ; 3. The Subject of Security ; 4. Security and Self: Reflections of a Fallen Realist ; 5. Defining Security: A Subaltern Realist Perspective ; PART II: The Discourses of Security ; 6. Discourses of War: Security and the Case of Yugoslavia ; 7. Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation ; 8. Changing Worlds of Security
