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Widely acclaimed, this book takes as its main theme the question of how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Buzan argues that the concept of security is a versatile, penetrating and useful way to approach the study of international relations. Security provides an ananlytical framework which stands between the extremes of power and peace, incorporates most of their insights and adds more of its own.
Barry Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of international relations. He defines his interests as:
the conceptual and regional aspects of international security;
international history, and the evolution of the international system since prehistory;
international relations theory, particularly structural realism;
international society, and the 'English School' approach to International Relations.
He took his first degree at the University of British Columbia (1968), and his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973).
From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.
He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. Since 1999 he has been the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004 he is editor of the European Journal of International Relations. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected as an Academician of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.
Works:
Seabed Politics (1976)
Change and the Study of International Relations: The Evaded Dimension (1981) editor with R. J. Barry Jones
People, States & Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983; revised second edition 1991)
An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations (1987)
The International Politics of Deterrence (1987) editor
Anticipating the Future: Twenty Millennia of Human Progress (1988) with Gerald Segal
European Security Order Recast: Scenarios for the Post-Cold War Era (1990)
The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993) with Charles Jones and Richard Little
Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1997) with Ole Waever, Jaap De Wilde
The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998) with Eric Herring
International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000) with Richard Little
The Mind Map Book (2000) with Tony Buzan
Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003) with Ole Waever
Does China Matter?: A Reassessment (2004) editor with Rosemary Foot
From International to World Society: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalization (2004)
The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics In The Twenty-First Century (2004)
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这本书的叙事结构和论证方式,展现出一种罕见的学术严谨性与思想的穿透力。它不仅仅是在描述现象,更是在解构支撑这些现象的理论基础。我特别欣赏作者在处理国家主权与个体安全关系时的那种微妙的平衡感。以往的国际关系经典读物常常将国家利益置于至高无上的地位,将人民视为服从于国家策略的资源;然而,这里的探讨却巧妙地将焦点拉回到了“恐惧”本身——这种根植于人类经验的、具有高度情感色彩的驱动力。作者通过引入诸如边缘化群体、流离失所者等被传统安全研究忽视的议题,成功地拓宽了安全研究的疆域。阅读过程中,我仿佛跟随作者进行了一场高强度的思想体操,不断地在微观的个人焦虑和宏观的地缘政治结构之间进行切换和权衡。对安全共同体内部“我们”与“他们”边界划定的历史演变分析,揭示了安全如何成为一种排他性的实践,它在保护一部分人的同时,往往意味着对另一部分人安全感的系统性剥夺。
评分读完这本《人民、国家与恐惧》(People, States, and Fear)后,我有一种醍醐灌顶的感觉。这本书深刻地剖析了国际关系中“安全”这一核心概念是如何被不同行为体——从主权国家到非国家行为者,再到个体层面——所构建、理解和追求的。作者并没有停留在传统的现实主义或自由主义的二元对立框架内,而是引入了安全化的理论视角,探讨了特定议题(比如环境、经济甚至身份认同)是如何被“话语建构”为一种生存威胁,从而为采取非常规措施打开大门的。这种对“安全化”过程的细致描摹,让我开始重新审视过去认为理所当然的国际事件。例如,过去我会简单地将军事部署视为对敌对势力的反应,但现在我能看到其中蕴含的政治修辞和精英决策是如何将某种状态塑造成必须被立即解决的“安全问题”。书中对不同安全共同体内部认同的形成机制的论述尤其引人入胜,它解释了为什么在某些地区,威胁感知会迅速扩散并形成集体行动,而在另一些地方,同样的威胁却被轻描淡写。这种对“社会建构”的强调,使得这本书超越了冷冰冰的权力博弈分析,触及了人类集体心理和政治认知的深层结构。
评分我对这本书的评价是,它提供了一种极其有力的“批判性工具箱”,而不是一成不变的“标准答案”。它的价值不在于预测下一次冲突的爆发点,而在于教导读者如何审视现有权力结构和话语体系的合法性基础。书中的案例选择非常精妙,跨越了冷战后的诸多关键时刻,无论是针对恐怖主义的全球反恐战争,还是区域性的资源争夺,作者都能从中提炼出共通的逻辑模式。特别是关于“不安全感”的动态循环分析,令人印象深刻。书中指出,许多旨在增加安全性的举措,比如大规模监控或军事化边境,在短期内可能暂时平息了特定群体的焦虑,但长期来看,却往往内化为新的不安全因素,催生出新的对立和反抗。这种辩证的视角,避免了将安全等同于绝对控制的简单化倾向,而是将其视为一个永恒的、充满张力的协商过程。对于任何希望深入理解当前世界秩序复杂性的读者来说,这本书是不可或缺的“反教条指南”。
评分这本书的语言风格是其魅力所在,它既有学术论文的精准,又不乏哲学思辨的深度,阅读过程体验非常充实。作者在构建概念时非常克制,避免了不必要的术语堆砌,使得核心论点清晰有力地穿透出来。我尤其赞赏作者对“国家理性”的解构。传统上,国家被假设为理性的、追求自身利益最大化的行为体;但这本书展示了,许多国家行为是受制于国内政治压力、历史创伤记忆以及精英群体对自身地位的焦虑所驱动的。这种对“非理性”安全决策的深入挖掘,极大地丰富了我对国际政治心理学的理解。它让我意识到,我们所见的国际危机,往往是内部压力锅效应在外部世界的投射。每一次对外部威胁的强调,都可能是在转移对内部社会不平等或经济困境的注意力。这种将国内政治与国际安全紧密捆绑的分析框架,是本书最强大的创新点之一,它有效地打破了国际关系研究中长期存在的“国内-国际”二分法。
评分坦率地说,这本书的阅读门槛略高,因为它要求读者不仅熟悉国际关系的基本术语,更要准备好挑战自己既有的世界观。然而,一旦适应了其论证的节奏,它带来的知识回报是巨大的。我最受启发的一点是,安全并非一个静态的终点,而是一个持续的、政治性的“宣告”行为。谁有权力定义什么是“威胁”,谁就掌握了制定政策的主导权。这种对“权力与话语”关系的强调,让我对媒体报道和政治演讲中的“紧急状态”话语变得异常警惕。它引导我思考:当前被热议的某个危机,究竟是真正威胁到我们的生存,还是被某些利益集团精心包装出来,用以巩固其权力的工具?全书在收尾部分对未来安全治理模式的展望,虽然没有提供乌托邦式的解决方案,却以一种审慎而充满希望的态度,指明了通过加强包容性对话、弱化排他性安全共同体构建的可能性。这是一本需要反复阅读、时常翻阅并时常反思的“思想伙伴”。
评分His central concern is with the purposes expressed by states, and in particular with the ways in which ideas and values provide a 'cement' for states and their identity. Uh...扣掉一颗星因为此人的从句套从句套从句套从句,看的很辛苦呀~
评分His central concern is with the purposes expressed by states, and in particular with the ways in which ideas and values provide a 'cement' for states and their identity. Uh...扣掉一颗星因为此人的从句套从句套从句套从句,看的很辛苦呀~
评分Conceptual Analysis weak and strong states revisionist and status-quo
评分His central concern is with the purposes expressed by states, and in particular with the ways in which ideas and values provide a 'cement' for states and their identity. Uh...扣掉一颗星因为此人的从句套从句套从句套从句,看的很辛苦呀~
评分写论文的时候看的,表述很辛苦
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