1st Edition

Interpreting Global Security

Edited By Mark Bevir, Oliver Daddow, Ian Hall Copyright 2014
200 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection explores the fruitfulness of applying an interpretive approach to the study of global security. The interpretive approach concentrates on unpacking the meanings and beliefs of various policy actors, and, crucially, explains those beliefs by locating them in historical traditions and as responses to dilemmas. Interpretivists thereby seek to highlight the contingency,... Read more

1. Interpreting Global Security – Mark Bevir, Oliver Daddow and Ian Hall 2. The Rise of Security Governance – Mark Bevir and Ian Hall 3. An Interplay of Traditions: The ‘Return of Uncertainty’ and Its Taming in Post-9/11 US Security Thinking – Sabine Selchow 4. Interpreting George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy – Daniel Zoughbie 5. From Value Protection to Value Promotion: Interpreting British Security Policy – Oliver Daddow and Jamie Gaskarth 6. Negotiating the Global Security Dilemma: Interpreting Russia’s Security Agenda – Aglaya Snetkov 7. Interpreting Missile Defence: A Comparative Study of European Reactions – Jocelyn Mawdsley 8. Framing the Sovereignty-Intervention Dilemma: The Strange Omission of the Genocide Convention – Adrian Gallagher 9. Writing the Threat of Terrorism in Western Europe and the European Union: An Interpretive Approach – Christopher Baker-Beall 10. Security Politics and Public Discourse: A Morgenthauian Approach – Hartmut Behr

Biography

Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Oliver Daddow, University of Leicester, UK

Ian Hall, Australian National University, Australia