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The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy: Routledge Critical Security Studies

Editat de Christopher Browning, Marko Lehti
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2013
In recent years debates about the nature and future of the West have been high on the political agenda. Prognoses of the West’s imminent demise have been countered by those arguing for its continued relevance, or those arguing that while the West will survive its nature, and the balance of power between its constituent units, is transforming.
This book argues that understanding contemporary developments requires subjecting the very idea of the West to critical scrutiny and in particular asking what kind of concept it actually is. Locating the West as a discursive concept the book argues attempts to save, fix or reclaim the meaning of the West are illustrative of political agendas rather than indicative of accurate claims about the essential nature of the West. In contrast, the book argues that as a concept the West is impregnated with various discursive legacies, the most embedded of which are those of a civilisational, modern and political West. However, while attempts to define the West’s essence are therefore doomed to fail, given the concept’s historical and discursive flexibility, such attempts reaffirm the legitimising role which claims to the West continue to perform.
Beyond this, the book challenges traditional genealogies of the West, which overwhelmingly depict the West as an inside-out concept. In contrast, the book argues that historically outsiders have played an important role in defining the nature of the West and constituting it as a political subject; processes that remain evident today.
This book will particularly interest students of critical security studies, critical geopolitics, European politics, American politics and IR theory.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415851596
ISBN-10: 0415851599
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Critical Security Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: New Tensions in a Troubled Partnership Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti  Part 1: Foundations of The West  2. The West: Contested, Narrated and Clustered Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti  3. The Russian Dawn: How Russia Contributed to the Emergence of ‘The West’ as a Concept Peggy Heller  4. The Perpetual Decline of the West Patrick Thaddeus Jackson  Part 2: The Dividing Legacy of The West  5. Rebooting the West: Can the Western Alliance Still Engage in War? Christopher Coker  6. American West vs. European West: A Struggle for Ownership and Legitimacy Marko Lehti  Part 3: Europe, America and Alternative Core Wests  7. European Identity, Post-Western Europe, and Complex Cultural Diversity Paul Blokker and Gerard Delanty  8. Difference within Similarity: The Puzzle of Transatlantic Relations Pertti Joenniemi  9. Beyond the West and Towards the Anglosphere? Christopher S. Browning and Ben Tonra  Part 4: Remaking The West in the Margins  10. Western Hegemony, Global Democracy and the Russian Challenge Viatcheslav Morozov  11. Asian Occidentalism and Rediscovered Modenities Alastair Bonnett  12. Conclusion: The Resilient West? Christopher S. Browning

Notă biografică

Christopher S. Browning is Associate Professor in International Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Marko Lehti is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere Peace Research Institute at the University of Tampere and Academic Director of the Baltic Sea Region Studies Masters Programme at the University of Turku, Finland.

Descriere

This book problematises the idea of and debates about a ‘divided West’ that have emerged since 9/11 and the controversy over the Iraq War.