The Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism

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dc.contributor.authorPretorius, Joelien
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-30T13:31:07Z
dc.date.available2012-10-30T13:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis 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 the US model of defence transformation is being adopted by an increasing number of countries. Built on a critical constructivist foundation, the security-imaginary approach is contrasted with rationalist and neo-institutionalist ways of explaining military diffusion and emulation. Merging cultural and constructivist themes, the article offers a ‘strong cultural’ argument to explain why a country would emulate a foreign military model and how this model is constituted in and comes to constitute a society’s security imaginary.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationPretorius. J. (2008). The Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism. Security Dialogue. 39(1): 97-118en_US
dc.identifier.issn0967-0106
dc.identifier.issn1460-3640
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/452
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author postprint version of an article published by Sage. The file may be freely used, provided that acknowledgement of the source is given.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010607086825
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectMilitaryen_US
dc.subjectSecurityen_US
dc.subjectImperialismen_US
dc.subjectConstructivismen_US
dc.titleThe Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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