People, States and Fear: National Security Problem in International Relations

"This is the first systematic and in-depth examination of the concept of national security, and of the implications of the security dilemma. It is a searching analysis, rooted in a thorough grounding of the international theory and strategic studies, literatures, and in the author's compelling logic. This innovative study should help considerably in reintegrating strategic studies - which have become too highly technical - into the mainstream of theorizing in international relations. The volume should be required reading for all those interested in the problems of national security and arms control in an international system characterized by endemic conflict and the ever-present threat of nuclear war." — K. J. Holsti, University of British Columbia.
"Very well written and we] I researched. There is much that is new and interesting in this book. The author's concern for what is changing and evolving in the domain of international politics is particularly valuable.... He shows how the conceptual outlooks of the power-politics `realist' and the anti-power-politics `idealist' can miss some of what is growing and shifting and changing in the international arena. The book will be very valuable to students and lay readers simply for the amount of ground it covers." — George H. Quester, University of Maryland.