1st Edition
Culture and Security Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security
By Michael Williams
Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies.
Developing a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy, the volume argues that cultural practices have been central to transformations in European and US security... Read more
Introduction 1. Culture, Strategy and Security: Reconstructing an Historical Relationship 2. From Strategic Culture to Cultural Strategies 3. Security, Identity and Power I: The 'Democratic Peace' as a Strategy 4. Security, Identity and Power II: NATO, Russia and the Power of Identity 5. The Future Structure of European Security
Biography
Michael Williams
