People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War ERA

Widely acclaimed, this book takes as its main theme the question of how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes.   Buzan argues that the concept of security is a versatile, penetrating and useful way to approach the study of international relations. Security provides an ananlytical framework  which stands between the extremes of power and peace, incorporates most of their insights and adds more of its own.Buzan, Barry is the author of 'People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War ERA', published 1991 under ISBN 9780745007205 and ISBN 0745007201.