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35
Citations
9045
World Ranking
726
National Ranking
118

Overview

Ken Booth is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a particular emphasis on sociology and political science, as well as political science and international relations.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Global Security and Public Health

Ken Booth has published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, where their recent paper titled Kenneth Waltz: An Intellectual Biography was published in 2024.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Nicholas J. Wheeler
  • Andrew Hurrell
  • Robert O'Neill
  • Adam Roberts
  • William A. Wallace

Best Publications

  • International theory; positivism and beyond

    Steve Smith;Ken Booth;Marysia Zalewski

  • The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics

    Ken Booth;Nicholas J Wheeler

  • Security and emancipation

    Ken Booth

  • International relations theory today

    Ken Booth;Steve Smith

  • Theory of World Security

    Ken Booth

  • Strategy and ethnocentrism

    Ken Booth

  • Critical Security Studies And World Politics

    Ken Booth

  • Security in Anarchy: Utopian Realism in Theory and Practice

    Ken Booth

  • The security dilemma

    Ken Booth;Nicholas John Wheeler

  • Human wrongs and international relations

    Ken Booth

  • Security in southern Africa: after apartheid, beyond realism

    Ken Booth;Vale Peter

  • Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order

    Ken Booth;Timothy Dunne

  • Security and Self : Reflections of a Fallen Realist

    Ken Booth

  • Critical Security Studies and Regional Security: The Case of Southern Africa

    Ken Booth;Peter Vale

  • Identity, migration and the new security agenda in Europe

    Ken Booth

  • War and Change in World Politics

    Ken Booth

  • Navies and foreign policy

    Ken Booth

  • New Thinking About Strategy and International Security

    Ken Booth

  • Empires, systems and states: great transformations in international politics

    Michael Cox;Timothy Dunne;Ken Booth

  • Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Ken Booth;Russell B. Trood

  • The Kosovo Tragedy : The Human Rights Dimensions

    Ken Booth

  • Strategic power : USA/USSR

    C. G. Jacobsen;Ken Booth;William H. Kincade;David R. Jones

  • Realism and World Politics

    Ken Booth

  • The eighty years' crisis: International relations 1919-1999

    Timothy Dunne;Michael Cox;Ken Booth

  • Law, force, and diplomacy at sea

    Ken Booth

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Dunne
Tim Dunne University of Queensland
Nicholas J. Wheeler
Nicholas J. Wheeler University of Birmingham
Steve Smith
Steve Smith University of Oxford
Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater Aberystwyth University
John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer University of Chicago
Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday London School of Economics and Political Science

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