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Widely acclaimed, this book takes as its main theme the question of how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Buzan argues that the concept of security is a versatile, penetrating and useful way to approach the study of international relations. Security provides an ananlytical framework which stands between the extremes of power and peace, incorporates most of their insights and adds more of its own.

Barry Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of international relations. He defines his interests as:

the conceptual and regional aspects of international security;

international history, and the evolution of the international system since prehistory;

international relations theory, particularly structural realism;

international society, and the 'English School' approach to International Relations.

He took his first degree at the University of British Columbia (1968), and his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973).

From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.

He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. Since 1999 he has been the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004 he is editor of the European Journal of International Relations. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected as an Academician of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.

Works：

Seabed Politics (1976)

Change and the Study of International Relations: The Evaded Dimension (1981) editor with R. J. Barry Jones

People, States & Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983; revised second edition 1991)

An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations (1987)

The International Politics of Deterrence (1987) editor

Anticipating the Future: Twenty Millennia of Human Progress (1988) with Gerald Segal

European Security Order Recast: Scenarios for the Post-Cold War Era (1990)

The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993) with Charles Jones and Richard Little

Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1997) with Ole Waever, Jaap De Wilde

The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998) with Eric Herring

International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000) with Richard Little

The Mind Map Book (2000) with Tony Buzan

Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003) with Ole Waever

Does China Matter?: A Reassessment (2004) editor with Rosemary Foot

From International to World Society: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalization (2004)

The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics In The Twenty-First Century (2004)