What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative thinking, Ken Booth exp...

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Main Author:	Booth, Ken 1943- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007
Series:	Cambridge studies in international relations 105
Subjects:	Philosophie Security, International / Philosophy World politics / 1989- Sicherheitspolitik
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative thinking, Ken Booth explores security as a precious instrumental value which gives individuals and groups the opportunity to pursue the invention of humanity rather than live determined and diminished lives. Booth suggests that human society globally is facing a set of converging historical crises. He looks to critical social theory and radical international theory to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding the historical challenges facing global business-as-usual and for planning to reconstruct a more cosmopolitan future. Theory of World Security is a challenge both to well-established ways of thinking about security and alternative approaches within critical security studies
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 489 pages)
ISBN:	9780511840210
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511840210