Security

by Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan

Book Overview

Two schools of thought now exist in security studies: traditionalists want to restrict the subject to politico-military issues; while wideners want to extend it to the economic, societal and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555877842
• ISBN13: 9781555877842
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding work

What Buzan Wæver, and de Wilde have done here is excellent work. Explicitly incorporating constructivism into the analysis of security, their new framework has the power and flexibility necessary to deal with an complex post Cold War security environment. Their most notible contribution here, the idea of securitization, is a powerful but underutilized analytical tool. Well written, the book is of value to students (graduate and undergraduate) and established academics alike.