Since its appearance on the world stage,
the West (Europe, the United States and
Canada, Australia and New Zealand) has
been a primary producer of security (for
itself) and of insecurity (for itself and for
others). Western discourse has not only
invented the term security but also
expanded and reshaped it according to its
own complex evolution. The goals of this
volume are to analyze the evolution of the
contested concept of security and to discuss
how the concept of security has
emerged as a “Western social enterprise” .
How Western conceptions of security
have developed and changed since the
end of the Cold War, the nature of new
security challenges and their implications
for the West and the direction in which
evolving concepts of security will lead the
West and the entire global community are
some of the relevant themes addressed by
contributors to this volume.
The volume emphasizes scholarly originality, methodological rigor and research. The audience for the book will be scholars and practitioners working in the field of international security, international relations students as well as policy-makers with interests in the areas of national security. Security in the West can easily be adopted as a reader in undergraduate and graduate level courses addressing the security problem, or as recommended reading for disciplines such as world politics, international relations, globalization studies, security and public policy and others.
The volume emphasizes scholarly originality, methodological rigor and research. The audience for the book will be scholars and practitioners working in the field of international security, international relations students as well as policy-makers with interests in the areas of national security. Security in the West can easily be adopted as a reader in undergraduate and graduate level courses addressing the security problem, or as recommended reading for disciplines such as world politics, international relations, globalization studies, security and public policy and others.
Biografia dell'autore
Giampiero Giacomello is Assistant
Professor of International Relations at the
Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia,
Università di Bologna. His research interests
include strategic studies, civil-military
cooperation, cyber-terrorism and foreign
policy analysis. His most recent volume is
International Relations and Security in the
Digital Age, edited with Johan Eriksson
(2007).
R. Craig Nation has been Professor of Strategy and Director of Eurasian Studies at the U.S. Army War College since 1996. He specializes in security affairs with an emphasis upon the European and Eurasian regions. Major publications include War on War: The Zimmerwald Left and the Origins of Communist Internationalism (1989); Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991 (1992); and War in the Balkans 1991-2002 (2003).
R. Craig Nation has been Professor of Strategy and Director of Eurasian Studies at the U.S. Army War College since 1996. He specializes in security affairs with an emphasis upon the European and Eurasian regions. Major publications include War on War: The Zimmerwald Left and the Origins of Communist Internationalism (1989); Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991 (1992); and War in the Balkans 1991-2002 (2003).
