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The Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
(Sage, 2008)
This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic
tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that
weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the
world) at a time ...
The security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
(SAGE, 2008)
This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the world) at a time when ...
Non-alignment in the current world order. The impact of the rise of China
(Institute for Strategic Studies at the University of Pretoria, 2008)
The relevance of the Non-Aligned Movement has been in question since the end of Cold War bipolarity. In the post-Cold War order, whether interpreted as cosmopolitan, unipolar, multipolar or globalised in nature, there are ...
Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing
(University of the Free State, 2008)
This article traces the politics of meaning-fixing with respect to the role
of the defence force as apartheid declined from the mid-1980s, as it was negotiated
from a current to a past organising principle of the “security ...
The Technological culture of war
(Sage, 2008)
The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction,
that is, war can be “unlearned.” This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an ...