SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
Series: THEMES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Published: 2005
Place of publication: CAMBRIDGE
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 349
Description: Security studies as a branch of international relations theory is evaluated from the perspective of the main rival theories - realism, neorealism, liberal institutionalism, classic economic liberalism, and Marxism - to explain why international figures choose or eschew force and coercive threats in order to elicit favourable outcomes.