Background
Booth, Ken was born on January 29, 1943 in Featherstone, England. Son of Fred and Phyllis (Chesham) Booth.
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The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics by Booth, Ken ( Author ) Hardcover Feb- 2008 Hardcover Feb- 01- 2008
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academic editor Relations theorist
Booth, Ken was born on January 29, 1943 in Featherstone, England. Son of Fred and Phyllis (Chesham) Booth.
Bachelor of Arts with first class honors, University Wales, 1964, Doctor of Philosophy, 1983.
He has been a visiting researcher at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and Cambridge University. He is a former Chair, and the first President of the British International Studies Association. He is an elected Academician of the Society of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
He was elected to the British Academy in 2006.
In a 1991 article in the International Relations journal International Affairs, he set out a radical position which he labelled "utopian realism". Within the terminology of International Rectifier theory he is considered a post-positivist and a critic of orthodox realism.
More recently, Booth has been very involved in the Welsh School branch of Critical Security Studies.
(The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in Worl...)
He is the former East H Carr Professor of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He was part of the editorial team of the Review of International Studies, and currently serves as both Academic Editor of the Lynne Rienner "Critical Security Studies" series and the journal International Relations. Booth, Ken (1999) "Three Tyrannies" in Dunne, Tim and Wheeler, Nicholas J. (eds) Human Rights in Global Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 31-70.
Booth, Ken (1991) "Security and emancipation", Review of International Studies, 17(4), 313-26.
Member International Institute Strategic Studies, Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies, British International Studies Association.
Married Eurwen Jones, July 29, 1967. Children– Robert, Thomas.