Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Problem of Idealism: Critical and Emancipatory Security Theory in Context 3. ‘Theory is always for someone and for some purpose’: The Theoretical Limits of Critical and Emancipatory Theory 4. Critical Approaches to the Yugoslav Break-up and Wars 5. Domestic Exclusions: Citizenship and the State 6. International Exclusions: Re-Considering International Policy 7. Power and Agency in the Post-Pluralist Security Framework 8. Conclusion: The Political Limits to Critical and Emancipatory Approaches to Security and Conflict

About the Author

Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster.