Security in Anarchy
Utopian Realism in Theory and Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4032478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Booth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 527 |
| Publication date | 1991-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2621950 |
| OpenAlex | W2332000911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 96 |
Realism-the view that war is inescapable in a system where sovereign states compete for power and advantage to one another's detriment-still dominates thinking about international relations. Ken Booth argues that, as world politics continue to surprise us, a worldview in which war is seen as a rational policy choice is unacceptable. It is too soon in history to conclude that the international system is necessarily a 'war system'. As states become less important in what has been called the 'new medievalism', he arguesfor decentralizing power evenfurther towards a global civil society and a global community of communities. He quotes Oscar Wilde: 'A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.'
Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Mathematical economics · Realism · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Military and Defense Studies · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
The discourse of anarchy in IR
El Humanitarismo en Tiempos de Emergencias Complejas
Morgenthau as a Weberian Methodologist
Dire et écrire la sécurité
Francis Fukuyama's political idealism
The United States Africa Command
Beyond Belief
Elusive Paradise
The unfinished global revolution
The Global Covenant
Security in a Pluralist World
The Classical Approach as a Craft Discipline
International Boundaries as a Planetary Institution
Recovering the Classical Approach
Alternatives to International Societas?
Armed Intervention for Humanity
The Situation Ethics of Independent Statecraft
The Political Theory of International Societas
Democracy and International Community
Failed States and International Trusteeship
Justifying the Global Covenant
The Pluralist Architecture of World Politics
Justifying Conventional War
The Normative Dialogue of International Society
International Human Relations
E.H. Carr
Villains, victims, and sheriffs
E.H. Carr, Nationalism and the Future of the Sovereign State
Social Theory of International Politics
The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies
Realism as Critical Theory
Lessons from the Past
Towards a Framework of Alignment in International Relations
E.H. Carr’s Theory of Law
Political Speech in Fantastical Worlds
From new political organizations to changing moral geographies
Unthinkable Doomsday
Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
A Critical Appraisal of Realist International Relations Concepts in the Horn of Africa-Persian Gulf Relations
Smartness as prudence
From friend to foe
The ethics of Carr and Wendt
The invisible structures of anarchy
Anarchy and International Relations theory
Conceptualizing good global statehood
The (classical) Realist vision of global reform
Kenneth Waltz's Kantian moral philosophy
Breaking the Mould
Deriving Norms from ‘Global Space’
One state-one nation
A reassessment of E.H. Carr and the realist tradition
International Relations
Power Politics and Appeasement
Uncontested terrain? Reflections on the perception of the military in climate security
The increasing insecurity of security studies
From Exclusion to Utopia
Collective security
International Organizations, Security Dichotomies and the Trafficking of Persons and Narcotics in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Althusser’s Gramscian Debt
Utopian in the Right Sense”
Emancipation versus Desecuritization
There is Nothing Politically Right that is Morally Wrong’? Beyond Realism and Idealism in the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Bringing the Environment In
A New World Order
Visual Securitization
Security and the Environment
Resilience and human security
The thermonuclear revolution and the politics of imagination
Great illusions or great transformations? Human rights and international relations a hundred years on
The massacre of refugees in Congo
Through the surrealist looking glass
The tripartite structure of critical international theory
International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
Do realismo à emancipação
There is no such thing as society
The realism that did not speak its name
Complexity and simplicity
Environmental security in East Asia
Themes within the collective security idea
Following postnational signs
Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia
Urban identity versus national identity in the global city
The End of History as Science Fiction
The Triumph of Anti-liberalism? Reconciling Radicalism to Realism in International Relations Theory
A Realistic Utopia? Nancy Fraser, Cosmopolitanism and the Making of a Just World Order
Reclaiming the Vision Thing
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now
On Morality, Self‐interest and Foreign Policy
Security! What Do You Mean
Insecurity and State Formation in the Global Military Order
Revisiting Copenhagen
Geographies of dissent
Las utopías en las Relaciones Internacionales
Política, emancipação e humanitarismo
State, nation, society
A paz como um estado de tranquilidade sobre o futuro
| Unique citing works | 96 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,91 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 87 |