the-evolution-of-international-security-studies

vicontents4 Strategic Studies, deterrence and the Cold War 66Great power politics: the Cold War and bipolarity 68The technological imperative: the nuclear revolution in militaryaffairs 73The pressure of current affairs and ‘events’ 83The internal dynamics of academic debates 87Institutionalisation 91Conclusions 985 The Cold War challenge to national security 101Peace Research and Arms Control 104Great power politics: the Cold War and bipolarity 106The technological imperative: the nuclear revolution in militaryaffairs 109Positive peace, integration and societal cohesion 118Structural violence, economics and the environment 123The internal dynamics of debates in Peace Research 129From peace to security: Common Security, Feminism andPoststructuralism 135Foregrounding ‘security’ 135Women as a particular group: the birth of Feminist SecurityStudies 138Linguistic approaches and Poststructuralism 141Institutionalisation 145Conclusions 1536 International Security Studies post-Cold War: thetraditionalists 156The loss of a meta-event: surviving the Soviet Union 159Internal academic debates: state-centrism and epistemology 162Great power politics: a replacement for the Soviet Union? 165The technological imperative 170Regional security and non-Western events 176Institutionalisation 182Conclusions 1847 Widening and deepening security 187Constructivisms: norms, identities and narratives 191Conventional Constructivism 192Critical Constructivism 197Beyond the (Western) state 200Post-colonialism 200