This page intentionally left blank TheoryofWorldSecurity Whatisreal?Whatcanweknow?Howmightweact?Thisbooksets outtoanswerthesefundamentalphilosophicalquestionsinaradical andoriginaltheoryofsecurityforourtimes.Arguingthattheconcept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conserva- tivethinking,KenBoothexploressecurityasapreciousinstrumental valuewhichgivesindividualsandgroupstheopportunitytopursue theinventionofhumanityratherthanlivedeterminedanddiminished lives.Boothsuggeststhathumansocietygloballyisfacingasetofcon- verginghistoricalcrises.Helookstocriticalsocialtheoryandradical internationaltheorytodevelopacomprehensiveframeworkforunder- standingthehistoricalchallengesfacingglobalbusiness-as-usualand forplanningtoreconstructamorecosmopolitanfuture.TheoryofWorld Securityisachallengebothtowell-establishedwaysofthinkingabout securityandalternativeapproacheswithincriticalsecuritystudies. KENBOOTHisE.H.CarrProfessorintheDepartmentofInterna- tionalPoliticsattheUniversityofWales,Aberystwyth.HeisaFellow oftheBritishAcademyandthecurrenteditorofInternationalRelations. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: 105 TheoryofWorldSecurity EditorialBoard SteveSmith(Managingeditor) ThomasBiersteker PhilCerny MichaelCox A.J.R.Groom RichardHiggott KimberlyHutchings CarolineKennedy-Pipe SteveLamy MichaelMastanduno LouisPauly NgaireWoods Cambridge Studies in International Relations is a joint initiative of CambridgeUniversityPressandtheBritishInternationalStudiesAsso- ciation(BISA).Theserieswillincludeawiderangeofmaterial,from undergraduatetextbooksandsurveystoresearch-basedmonographs andcollaborativevolumes.Theaimoftheseriesistopublishthebest newscholarshipinInternationalStudiesfromEurope,NorthAmerica andtherestoftheworld. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: 105 104 BenjaminMiller States,NationsandtheGreatPowers Thesourcesofregionalwarandpeace 103 BeateJahn(ed.) ClassicalTheoryinInternationalRelations 102 AndrewLinklaterandHidemiSuganami TheEnglishschoolofinternationalrelations Acontemporaryreassessment 101 ColinWight Agents,structuresandinternationalrelations Politicsasontology 100 MichaelC.Williams Therealisttraditionandthelimitsofinternationalrelations 99 IvanArregu´ın-Toft Howtheweakwinwars Atheoryofasymmetricconflict 98 MichaelBarnettandRaymondDuvall Poweringlobalgovernance 97 YaleH.FergusonandRichardW.Mansbach Remappingglobalpolitics History’srevengeandfutureshock 96 ChristianReus-Smit Thepoliticsofinternationallaw 95 BarryBuzan Frominternationaltoworldsociety? Englishschooltheoryandthesocialstructureofglobalisation 94 K.J.Holsti Tamingthesovereigns Institutionalchangeininternationalpolitics Serieslistcontinuedafterindex Theory of World Security KenBooth CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521835527 © Ken Booth 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-37873-7 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-83552-7 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-54317-0 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Thisbookisdedicatedto thememoryofmygrandfather ALANBOOTH (1892–1971) AsanAbleSeamanintheRoyalNavyintheGreatWar hesailedaroundtheworldtwice, andtohisdyingday neverknew why