Introduction. -- Defining international security studies. -- The key questions in international security studies: the state, politics ad epistemology. -- The driving forces behind the evolution kof internationsl security studies. -- Strategic studies, deterrence and the Cold War. -- The Cold War challenge to national security. -- International security studies post-Cold war: the traditionalists. -- Widening and deepening security. -- Responding to 9/11: a return to national security? -- Conclusions.

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