Security, Identity, and Interests: A Sociology of International Relations.(Review) (book review)

By Bill McSweeney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 239p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

In this ambitious new book, Bill McSweeney applies a great deal of thought to questions at the heart of an ongoing project to retheorize international security studies and to metatheoretical issues at the heart of current debates in the international relations field. McSweeney powerfully critiques realist and objectivist approaches to international security studies, and he argues that security is "inextricably related to identity, and security policy to the reconstruction of ...

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