TY - JOUR
AU - Luke, Timothy W.
AB - Alternatives 16 f1992), 315444 The Discipline of Security Studies and the Codes of Containment: Learning From Kuwait Timothy W. Luke" What Happens After the End of History? For nearly five decades, the various disciplines of national security stud- ies have been dedicated to defining and applying the complex codes of containment at the various economic, military, political, social, and strategic fronts of the struggle between, as these rhetorics of power framed it, capitalism and communism, the West and the East, democ- racy and totalitarianism, the United States and the Soviet Union. From Yalta to Malta, the frozen tundras of bloc politics provided a peculiarly fixed terrain, which the disciplinary readings of national security stud- ies could somewhat reliably map with their anti-Communist/antitotali- tarian codes of containment. During 1989-1991, however, tremendous changes, working from above and from below, have upended the fields of reference and zones of difference that once anchored the disci- plinary reach of security studies to the strategic projects of Cold War-era containment. With the velvet and violent revolutions in East- ern Europe as well as perestroika in the Soviet Union, these frozen ter- rains of Cold War combat are melting into,far more mushy, if not totally 
TI - The Discipline of Security Studies and the Codes of Containment: Learning from Kuwait
JF - Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
DO - 10.1177/030437549101600302
DA - 1991-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-discipline-of-security-studies-and-the-codes-of-containment-vOJA7tTUnV
SP - 315
EP - 344
VL - 16
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -