ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses various aspects of theoretical debates in light of security policy change. A major theoretical contribution is the interdisciplinary analyses of security policy change, incorporating theoretical findings from cultural studies and domestic institutional analyses. First-generation and second-generation highlight various critical determinants of security policy change, assessing the explanatory power of their own causal claims. An overemphasis on structural determinants in international politics generates a lack of attention to domestic politics, particularly security policy-making institutions' responses to internal and external changes. An overemphasis on structural determinants in international politics generates a lack of attention to domestic politics, particularly security policy-making institutions' responses to internal and external changes. Security policies are produced by various interactions within domestic political structures, among participants, and through bureaucratic processes. For a better understanding of security policy change, integration of levels of analyses is necessary, for the state's security policy behavior "can be explained only by a conjunction of external and internal conditions".
