The International Political Sociology of Security
This book builds a theoretical approach to the intractable problem of theory/practice in International Relations (IR) and develops tools to study how theory and practice hang together in international security.
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieus political sociology, the book argues that theory and practice take part in struggles over basic understandings (doxa) in international fields through what the book calls doxic battles. In these battles scientific facts, military hardware and social networks are mobilized as weapons in a fight for recognition. NATOs transformation and fight for survival and the rapidly growing number of think tanks in European security in the 1990s is taken as an example of these processes. The book studies a variety of sources such as funding to science programmes in Europe; think tanks and research centres in European security; NATOs relations with the EU, the WEU and the OSCE; and the mobilization of theory at crucial points in the transformation process.
The International Political Sociology of Security will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Security Studies, Science Studies and Critical Theory.
Trine Villumsen Berling holds a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory, University of Copenhagen.
New International Relations
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