Bill McSweeney is a senior research fellow in international peace studies at the

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

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. Within academia he is considered the leading critic of the Copenhagen School of

security studies __NOTOC__ Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic sub-field within the wider discipline of international relations that studies organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international s ...

.Terriff, T. and Croft, S. (2000) ''Critical Reflections on Security and Change'', London: Frank Cass Publishers, p. 85

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*McSweeney, B. (1999) ''Security, Identity and Interests: A Sociology of International Relations'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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