Beyond the Security Dilemma: Ending America's Cold War (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Ralph, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138635065 ISBN 13: 9781138635067

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2001. The security dilemma has long been at the heart of the security studies discipline. Moving beyond this, this book attacks the assumptions of the traditional concept and redefines the security dilemma in a way more useful for examining security policy. By exposing the historical and social contingency of the traditional concept, the book argues that the security dilemma is an important though not a permanently operating feature of international politics. An examination of US policy towards the Soviet Union demonstrates the limits of perceiving the Cold War and challenges the role that American security policy has played in the process of constructing a transatlantic security community.

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About the Author

Jason G. Ralph, Institute of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138635065
• ISBN 13: 9781138635067
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224