Michael Sheehan provides a masterly survey of the varied positions
that scholars have adopted in interpreting "security", one of the
most contested terms in international relations, and asks whether a
synthesis is possible that both widens and deepens our
understanding of the concept. Sheehan begins by outlining the
classical realist approach of Morgenthau and Carr and the ideas of
their neorealist heirs. He then explores how the economic security
approach embraces both defense economics and human security from
poverty and hunger; and how environmental security links
environment and security in a fundamental challenge to the
international political hierarchy. Next, tackling the various
postpositivist perspectives on security, all of which stem from
worldviews fundamentally different from that of realism, he
explains the range of feminist thought on security, the ideas of
the critical security school, and the main concerns of postmodern
security theory. In conclusion, revealing his own interpretation of
security, he makes the case for a postpositivist conception that
links human emancipation, justice, and peace.
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