Security and International Relations

Introduction. Part I. Introduction to international security and security studies: 1. International relations and international security: boundaries, levels of analysis, and falsifying theories. 2. The foundations of security studies: Hobbes, Clausewitz, and Thucydides. 3. Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War: Part II. Contending Security Theories: 4. Realism, neo-realism and liberal institutionalism. 5. Economic liberalism and Marxism. Part III. Validating Security Theories: 6. Behaviorism. 7. Constructivism. Conclusions: 8. Whither international security and security studies?