He is an elected Academician of the Society of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. He was elected to the
British Academy in 2006.[2]
In a 1991 article in the international relations journal International Affairs, he set out a position which he labelled "utopian realism". Within the terminology of international relations theory, he is considered a
post-positivist and a critic of orthodox
realism by contemporary academics in the field of international relations.[by whom?]
Key publications
Booth, Ken (2007) Theory of World Security (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Booth, Ken and
Wheeler, Nicholas J. (2007) The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan)
Booth, Ken (2005) (eds.) Critical Security Studies and World Politics (London and Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications Inc,)
Booth, Ken and Dunne, Tim (2002) (eds.) Worlds in Collision. Terror and the Future of Global Order (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan)
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 (1995) "Human wrongs in international relations", International Affairs, 71(1), 103-26
Booth, Ken (1991) "Security and emancipation", Review of International Studies, 17(4), 313-26
Booth, Ken (1991) "Security in Anarchy: Utopian Realism in Theory and Practice", International Affairs, 67(3), 527-45
Booth, Ken (1979) Strategy and Ethnocentrism (London: Croom Helm Ltd)
Booth, Ken (1977) Navies and Foreign Policy (New York: Crane, Russak)