The Culture of National Security - (New Directions in World Politics) by Peter Katzenstein (Paperback)

This book is a groundbreaking work of scholarship that challenges traditional ways of thinking about global politics.

The authors argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

They propose a new approach that considers the interplay between regional, cultural, institutional complexes and conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography.

With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book provides an extensive debate on the nature and advantages and disadvantages of fully integrating ideational scholarship into the study of world politics.

The Culture of National Security is a must-read for historians, policy-makers, and analysts of contemporary affairs, offering insights and tools of sociological and constructivist scholarship to help understand concrete political questions.