Culture and Security: Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security

by Michael C. Williams and Michael C. Williams

Book Overview

This book examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies.

Developing a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy, the volume argues that cultural practices have been central to transformations in European and US security policy in the wake of the Cold War - including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415333970
• ISBN13: 9780415333979
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"