Edward A. Kolodziej is Director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also the first Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at Illinois. Professor Kolodziej has written or edited thirteen books on security and foreign policy. His latest publication is an edited volume, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights (2003).

• Part I. Introduction to International Security and Security Studies: 1. International relations and international security: boundaries, levels of analysis, and falsifying theories; 2. The foundations of security studies: Hobbes, Clausewitz and Thucydides; 3. Testing security theories: explaining the rise and demise of the Cold War; Part II. Contending Security Theories: 4. Realism, neo-realism and liberal institutionalism; 5. Economic liberalism and Marxism; Part III. Validating Security Theories: 6. Behaviorism; 7. Constructivism; Conclusions: 8. Whither international security and security studies?

'This is a valuable resource for scholars as well as a text for students. It is the most comprehensive survey of alternative ways of thinking about international security available. Maintaining theoretical and methodological rigor while integrating security studies into the larger field of international relations is a monumental achievement.' David A. Baldwin, Columbia University