The culture of national security norms and identity in world politics new directions in world politics amazonde katzenstein peter j fremdsprachige bucher. The political transformations of the 1980s and 1990s have dramatically affected models of national and international security particularly since the end of the cold war scholars have been uncertain about how to interpret the effects of major shifts in the balance of power are we living today in a unipolar bipolar or multipolar world are we moving toward an international order that makes . Beyond the substantive contributions of the individual authors and the extensive debate about the nature and the advantages and disadvantages of fully integrating ideational scholarship into the study of world politicsthe culture of national security should interest comparativists as a broad and ambitious attempt to apply the insights and tools of sociological and constructivist scholarship to the analysis of concrete political questions. In the culture of national security sixteen leading scholars employ an innovative fusion of sociology and security studies to explore alternatives to the long dominant analytical perspectives of. In the culture of national security sixteen leading scholars employ an innovative fusion of sociology and security studies to explore alternatives to the long dominant analytical perspectives of neorealism and neoliberalism questioning the utility of imagining global security relations simply in terms of the conventional dimensions of power and interest contributors reflect on whether a