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The York Centre for International and Security Studies pursues a triple mandate of research, graduate teaching, and outreach. We undertake critical and theoretically-informed research that is guided by: a) a concern with the ethical-political dimensions of international security policies; and b) the assumption that the pursuit of security, defence, peace, and social justice requires the study of transnational and global forces in relation to local contexts and a range of social groups. The Centre, a research unit of York University, works and partners with academics, policymakers, practitioners, and activists across Canada and around the world. Our members include York faculty and graduate students, and visiting scholars from inside and outside Canada.
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A Survey of Game Theory Models on Peace and War
(YCISS, 1990-03)This paper will present a survey of game theoretical applications to peace and war relevant to the continuing debate on the theory's place. (Some contributions are by Deutsch, 1954, 1968; Waltz, 1959; Quandt, 1961; Snyder, ... -
Completing Europe's Internal Market: Implications for Canadian Policy
(YCISS, 1990-03)The 1992 project in Europe promises to be one of the most significant developments of the contemporary international political economy, and Canadians need to be ready to meet the challenges and opportunities it presents. ... -
Institutional Change and the New European Politics: The European Community, European Political Cooperation and the Western European Union
(YCISS, 1990)The object of this paper is to examine a small section of these political questions. There are several pressures building for a more united and independent Western Europe. The market completion will almost certainly result ... -
A Survey of Military Cooperation among ASEAN States: Bilateralism or Alliance?
(YCISS, 1990-05)The question of whether a military/security arrangement binding the ASEAN states, if it is to take place, should be constructed within or outside the formal framework of ASEAN itself remains an open and thorny issue. But ... -
The "Modern" State in the Middle East: The Need for a Human Face
(YCISS, 1993-06)In my original formulation, I warned against two salient dangers to the state in the region. On the one hand, I felt that a state captivated by a particularistic social force and harnessed to its own radical purposes would ... -
Amplifying the Social Dimensions of Security
(YCISS, 1993-11)Initially, a group of scholars began to systematically redefine the concept of security in a manner that directed attention towards the limited opportunity that "military" responses offered to "security" problems. Their ... -
Peacekeeping and the Politics of Postmodernity
(YCISS, 1993-11)This paper attempts to explicate in a cursory fashion the ways in which theories of peacekeeping are embedded in a much broader set of assumptions about the nature of domestic politics and international relations. These ... -
Passing Judgement: Credit Rating Processes as Regulatory Mechanisms of Governance in the Emerging World Order
(YCISS, 1993-11)This paper argues that certain knowledge-producing institutions located in the American financial industry - debt-security or bond rating agencies - are significant forces in the creation and extension of the new, open ... -
Gender and International Relations: A Selected Historical Bibliography
(YCISS, 1994-03)This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive reference source for materials which address the question of gender in the study of International Relations, or which employ gender in the analysis of questions ... -
Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation
(YCISS, 1994-08)'Proliferation' appears to have been developed as a central image in the new international security agenda in the time between Krauthammer's article and the recent NATO summit. The spur to the construction of this image ... -
Security and Self Reflections of a Fallen Realist
(YCISS, 1994-10)Personal experience has always been an explicit feature of feminist theorising. Making sense of one's own life has been seen as a way of making sense of the lives of others. The personal, the political, and the international ... -
Discourses of War: Security and the Case of Yugoslavia
(YCISS, 1994-12)The agonizing war in the former Yugoslavia, the interminable parlays about what to do, the innumerable threats made and peace plans offered, retracted and made again have all served to highlight the process by which Western ... -
The Periphery as the Core: The Third World and Security Studies
(YCISS, 1995-03)The tendency of security studies to focus on a particular segment of the international system to the exclusion of another is ironic given the fact that it is in the neglected arena that the vast majority of conflicts have ... -
The "New" South Africa in Africa: Issues and Approaches
(YCISS, 1995-03)Today, as South Africans work out their post-apartheid future and as the old political and economic barriers with the rest of the continent crumble, it is probable that there will be a sustained increase in political-economic ... -
Pandora's Sons: The Nominal Paradox of Patriarchy and War
(YCISS, 1996-01)This paper addresses the gender critique of war directly. It argues that the gender critique of war has racked enough to be able to identify a preliminary thesis regarding war and the reproduction of patriarchy. The altered ... -
Critical Theory and Security Studies
(YCISS, 1996-02)Security studies has been among the last bastions of neorealist orthodoxy in International Relations to accept critical, or even theoretically-sophisticated, challenges to its problematic. Recent polemical exchanges in the ... -
Eclipse of the Other in Prewar Japanese Discursive Space: Japanese Cultural Identity in the Modern World
(YCISS, 1996-02)In this paper, I conceive identity as a particular cognitive inclination or a `movement’ of a mind troubled by its need—i.e., the desire for identity—characterized by a retrogressive longing for an idealized past. Here I ... -
The Evolution of Strategic Thinking at the Canadian Department of National Defence, 1950-1960
(YCISS, 1996-08)The paper will demonstrate that Canadian officials expressed interests in a variety of areas, including both conceptual and empirical strategic contributions. Conceptually, it will be demonstrated that officials began to ... -
Postfordism in the US Arms Industry: Toward 'Agile Manufacturing'
(YCISS, 1996-12)This paper seeks to illuminate this process of military-industrial transformation. It argues that two powerful motive forces can be identified behind this phenomenon. The first is practical, deriving from both the need to ... -
The Demystification of Global Finance: A Feminist Interpretation
(YCISS, 1997-03)There is a need for feminist work to explore the gendered processes and the gendered effects of global finance and global restructuring that is situated at the intersection of IPE, economics, and politics. In order to ...
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