International Security is one of the main sub-fields of International Relations. This four-volume collection brings together journal articles and some book chapters to map the main themes and turning points in the development of International Security Studies.

Volume One: The Cold War and Nuclear Deterrence The Sources of Soviet Conduct - George Kennan National Security as an Ambiguous Symbol - Arnold Wolfers Another ′Great Debate′ - Hans J Morgenthau The National Interest of the United States The Delicate Balance of Terror - Arnold Wohlstetter The Stability of a Bipolar World - Kennthe N Waltz The Sharing of Nuclear Responsibilities - Andre Beaufre A Problem in Need of a Solution Strategic Studies and Its Critics - Hedley Bull Arms Control and World Order - Hedley Bull Co-Operation under the Security Dilemma - Robert Jervis Rationality at the Brink - Jack L Snyder The Role of Cognitive Processes in Failures of Deterrence Contrasts in American and Soviet Strategic Thought - Fritz W Ermarth Why Nuclear Superiority Doesn′t Matter - Robert Jervis Strategic Stability Reconsidered - Colin S Gray Managing Nuclear Multipolarity - John J Weltman Common Security A Programme for Disarmament, the Report of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues under the Chairmanship of Olof Palme Redefining Security - Richard Ullman Security in the Third World - Mohammed Ayoob The Worm about to Turn? Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe - Carl Sagan Some Policy Implications The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology - Jack S Levy A Theoretical and Historical Analysis Why Even Good Defences May Be Bad - Charles Glaser Transarmament - Johan Galtung From Offensive to Defensive Defence Volume Two: The Transition to the Post-Cold War Security Agenda Economic Structure and International Security - Barry Buzan The Limits of the Liberal Case Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals - Carol Cohn Geopolitical Discourse - Simon Dalby The Soviet Union as Other International Security Studies - Joseph S Nye and Sean Lynn-Jones A Report of a Conference on the State of the Field ′Base Women′, Bananas, Beaches and Bases - Cynthia Enloe Making a Feminist Sense of International Politics The Case against Linking Environmental Degradation and Security - Daniel Deudney Security, Sovereignty and the Challenge of World Politics - R J B Walker How the West Was One - Bradley Klein Representational Politics of NATO Soft Power - Joseph S Nye Security and Emancipation - Ken Booth The Renaissance of Security Studies - Stephen Walt The Quagmire of Gender and International Security - Rebecca Grant Renaissance in Security Studies? Caveat Lector - Edward Kolodziej A Tale of Two Worlds - J M Goldgeier and Michael McFaul Core and Periphery in the Post-Cold War Era Japan′s National Security - Peter J Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara Structures, Norms and Policies The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict - Barry Posen The Clash of Civilizations? - Samuel Huntington The Emerging Structure of International Politics - Kenneth N Waltz Common, Comprehensive and Co-Operative Security - David Dewitt UNPD Human Development Report 1994, Chapter Two New Dimensions of Human Security ′Message in a Bottle′? Theory and Praxis in Critical Security Studies - Richard Wyn Jones Volume Three: Widening Security What Is Security? - Emma Rothschild A Genealogy of the Chemical Weapons Taboo - Richard Price Securitization and Desecuritization - Ole Waever Identity and Security - Bill McSweeney Buzan and the Copenhagen School? Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies - Keith Krause and Michael Williams Politics and Methods Security Studies and the End of the Cold War - David A Baldwin Collective Identity in a Democratic Community - Thomas Risse-Kappen The Case of NATO Insecurity and State Formation in the Global Military Order - Keith Krause The Middle Eastern Case Constructing National Interests - Jutta Weldes Multiple Identities, Interfacing Games - Karin Fierke The Social Construction of Western Action in Bosnia Competing Visions for U S Grand Strategy - Barry R Posen and Andrew L Ross Imagined (Security) Communities - Emanuel Adler Cognitive Regions in International Relations Volume Four: Debating Security and Strategy and the Impact of 9/11 Should Strategic Studies Survive? - Richard K Betts Identity and the Politics of Security - Michael C Williams Revisiting Copenhagen - Jef Huysmans Or, on the Creative Development of a Security Studies Agenda in Europe After Pax Americana - Charles A Kupchan Benign Power, Regional Integration and the Sources of Stable Multipolarity States of Insecurity - Joseph Masco Plutonium and Post-Cold War Anxiety in New Mexico, 1992-96 Human Security and the Interests of the State - Astri Suhrke The Lonely Superpower - Samuel P Huntington The Little Mermaid′s Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School - Lene Hansen Nuclear Order and Disorder - William Walker Global Governance, Development and Human Security - Caroline Thomas Exploring the Links Human Security - Roland Paris Paradigm Shift or Hot Air? Security and Immigration - Didier Bigo Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease Power and Weakness - Robert Kagan Feminist Responses to International Security Studies - J Ann Tickner On the Pedagogy of ′Small Wars′ - Tarak Barkawi Knowledge as Power - Robert L Paarlberg Science, Military Dominance and U S Security The ′War on Terror′ - Gilles Andreani Good Cause, Wrong Concept Imaging Terror - James Der Derian Logos, Pathos and Ethos Should HIV/AIDS Be Scrutinized? The Ethical Dilemmas of Linking HIV/AIDS and Security - Stefan Elbe From Social to National Security - Mark Neocleous