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Bill McSweeney addresses the central problem of international relations - security - and constructs a novel framework for its analysis. He argues for the unity of the interpersonal, societal and international levels of human behaviour and outlines a concept of security which more adequately reflects the complexity and ambiguity of the topic. This book introduces an alternative way of theorizing the international order, within which the idea of security takes on a broader range of meaning, inviting a more critical and interpretative approach to understanding the concept and formulating security policy. The recent shift to sociology in international relations theory has not as yet realized its critical potential for the study of security. Drawing on contemporary trends in social theory, Dr McSweeney argues that human agency and moral choice are inherent features of the construction of the social and thus international order, and hence of our conception of security and security policy

El libro Security Identity and Interests: A Sociology of International Relations analiza el problema de la seguridad en relaciones internacionales y las lecturas que de este complejo y controvertido tema se han ofrecido desde la academia. El texto traducido es el capítulo final del libro, con el que Bill McSweeney profundiza en una explicación alternativa de la seguridad y del orden social a la que ofrece el neorrealismo, entre otras, proponiendo una "teoría reflexiva del orden social" que se detiene en el carácter fluctuante de esta, y en sus posibilidades de cambio.

Since the publication in 1983 of the first edition of People, States and Fear, Barry Buzan's work has established itself—for European scholars, at least—as the canon and indispensable reference point for students of security. His book and the revisions of the second edition (1991) have been the stimulus for further exploration of the security problem at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Research in Copenhagen. Together with Buzan, the collaborators have produced several publications on the security theme, sufficiently interrelated to warrant the collective shorthand, the 'Copenhagen school' of security studies.