A seminal text in the growing area of critical approaches to security.. The first edition, published in 1991, was well-received and widely reviewed. The book is a key text on many course reading lists.
Preface
A note about the revised edition
Introduction
1. Provocations of our time
2. Rethinking foreign policy
3. Foreign policy and identity
4. Foreign policy and difference
5. Imagining America
6. Writing security
7. Rewriting security
8. The politics of theorizing identity
Epilogue: The disciplinary politics of theorising identity
