Tag
Security
Entries tagged security.
6 entries
Feminist International Relations
The claim that international relations theory only looks universal because it hides the women who sustain it and mistakes a masculine account of power for the whole of world politics.
12 min
ConceptNuclear Deterrence
The paradox that a state can be made safer by holding open the certain capacity to destroy an attacker, so that no attack is worth launching.
10 min
TraditionPolitical Realism
The tradition that treats international politics as a struggle for power among states in a world with no ruler above them, where survival, not virtue, is the first law.
12 min
ConceptSecuritization
Security is not a fact about the world but a move in politics: to call something an existential threat is to claim a license for emergency action.
10 min
ConceptStructural Realism
State behavior is driven by the structure of an anarchic system and the distribution of power within it, not by human nature or the kind of regime a state has.
10 min
ConceptThe Balance of Power
States tend to align against whoever is getting too strong, because no one wants to live at the mercy of a single dominant power.
10 min