Security, Strategy, and Critical Theory

CIAO DATE: 9/99

Richard Wyn Jones^*

1999

My grandfather Emyr Wyn Jones
followed the writing of this book with enormous interest—
an interest occasioned in part by our familial bonds,
but also by his passionate, Quaker-inspired support
for the worldwide struggle for peace and justice.
Sadly, he died just as the final draft was being completed.
I dedicate the book to his memory.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1—Traditional and Critical Theory

Promise: Toward a Critical Theory of Society
The Frankfurt School in Context
Traditional and Critical Theory
The Promise of a Critical Theory of Society

Impasse: Emancipatory Politics After Auschwitz
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Critique
Problems with Horkheimer’s Original Formulation
Emancipatory Politics After Auschwitz

Redemption: Renewing the Critical Project
Theory: Grounding the Possibility of Emancipation
Theory and Practice
Emancipation: Concrete Utopias
Technology
Renewing the Critical Project

Part 2—Traditional and Critical Security Studies

Theory: Reconceptualizing Security
The Inadequacy of Traditional Security Studies
Deepening Security
Broadening Security
Extending Security
Security and Emancipation

Technology: Reconceptualizing Strategy
Security and Strategy
Technology and Strategy
Nuclear Weapons as Technology
Theoretical Implications and Political Possibilities

Emancipation: Reconceptualizing Practice
International Relations Theory and the Practices of Global Politics
Critical International Theory and Emancipatory Politics
Gramsci on the Role of Intellectuals
Critical Security Studies and the Theory-Practice Nexus
The Tasks of Critical Security Studies

Epilogue

Bibliography

* Richard Wyn Jones is a lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is editor of Critical Theory and World Politics.