Security and International Relations

Cover......Page 0
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Tables and Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 15
Roadmap: organization and rationale of the volume......Page 16
Part I Introduction to international security and security studies......Page 23
Security as a Tower of Babel......Page 25
Seeking a way out of the impasse......Page 30
Defining security and international security......Page 36
The centrality of the state to contemporary security studies......Page 39
The system of state relations......Page 41
The state and transnational civil society......Page 44
The state and domestic order......Page 47
Theory and falsification......Page 51
Discussion questions......Page 59
Overviews of security studies......Page 60
Building a foundation under security and international security......Page 62
Hobbes: the security dilemma and the individual......Page 67
Clausewitz: the security dilemma and the state......Page 72
Thucydides: the security dilemma and how to relax if not resolve it......Page 75
Choosing whether to use force: Thucydides’ relevance to contemporary war......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 85
Suggestions for further reading......Page 89
3 Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War......Page 91
Devising a test of security theories: the Cold War......Page 92
Organization of the discussion......Page 97
I. The rise and demise of the Cold War: struggle for hegemony......Page 98
II. Explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War......Page 118
What explains the implosion of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, and the rise of the Western coalition?......Page 128
Guidelines for testing security theories and approaches......Page 129
Discussion questions......Page 136
Suggestions for further reading......Page 137
Part II Contending security theories......Page 139
Pessimistic realism......Page 141
The neorealist revision......Page 149
Ad hoc amendments to realism and neorealism......Page 153
Optimistic realism......Page 158
Liberal institutionalists......Page 164
Evaluation of realism, neorealism, and liberal institutionalism and the Cold War......Page 174
Suggestions for further reading......Page 187
Introduction......Page 189
Economic man as rational actor......Page 190
More from the economist’s tool chest......Page 193
Substantive contributions of liberal theory to security studies......Page 195
Contrasting implications of strategic and economic rational actors......Page 197
Freedom vs. coercion......Page 200
Freedom of choice, theory of markets, and peace......Page 205
The Marxist and Leninist challenge to the liberal ideal......Page 217
Marx and the violent overthrow of capitalism......Page 221
The role of the state in the revolutionary process: Lenin’s extension of Marxist theory of conflict and revolution......Page 227
Evaluation of liberal economic and Marxist paradigms......Page 229
Discussion questions......Page 236
Suggestions for further reading......Page 237
Part III Validating security theories......Page 239
6 Behaviorism......Page 241
The behavioral approach: the scientific study of war and peace......Page 247
Power transition research program......Page 253
Critique of power transition: as science and as an explanation for the end of the Cold War......Page 259
Power transition and the end of the Cold War......Page 263
Suggestions for further reading......Page 270
7 Constructivism......Page 273
Constructivism and its critics......Page 278
Shared constructivists tenets......Page 282
The constructivist critique of prevailing paradigms......Page 284
Bridging the gap: Wendt’s world......Page 291
Constructivism and the cold war: Wendt and his uneasy allies......Page 297
Light constructivists and the Cold War......Page 301
Heavy constructivism and the Cold War......Page 303
Whither constructivism?: a critique......Page 306
Constructivists vs. constructivists......Page 308
A critique of constructivism from conventional wisdom......Page 310
Suggestions for further reading......Page 317
Part IV Conclusions......Page 319
8 Whither international security and security studies?......Page 321
Where we’ve been......Page 323
Where should security studies be heading?......Page 331
References......Page 333
Index......Page 361