Category Security studies

What is Security? (Richard Ullman, Barry Buzan, David Baldwin…)

In the conceptual mindset of policy-makers and the engagement of civil society.RNOLD WOLFERS’S CLASSIC ESSAY from 1962 starts off this section, providing an insight into competing deﬁnitions of security prevalent during the Cold War.

Feminism and Security by J. Ann Tickner

Source: Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security (NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1992), pp. 1–25.

Security and Emancipation by Ken Booth –

alternative security thinking, classical international relations, critical theory, peace research, strategic studies, and neo-realism.

The Concept of Security by David Baldwin

Essentially contested concepts are said to be so value-laden that no amount of argument or evidence can ever lead to agreement on a single version as the ‘correct or standard use’.

The National Security Problem in International Relations

FEW PEOPLE WOULD deny that security, whether individual, national, or international, ranks prominently among the problems facing humanity.

Redefining Security by Richard H. Ullman

SINCE THE ONSET of the Cold War in the late 1940s, every administration in Washington has deﬁned American national security in excessively narrow and excessively military terms.

“National Security” as an Ambiguous Symbol

The term national security, like national interest, is well enough established in the political discourse of international relations to designate an objective of policy distinguishable from others.

China’s rise, climate change and great power responsibility

The great power club is an exclusive social community; whereas some states are members, others remain outsiders.

Responsibility in international society

This chapter offers an approach to responsibility informed by the English School by discussing the ways in which responsibilities are negotiated, allocated and implemented in international society

Public policy and defence studies

This chapter introduces some of the key issues pertaining to the links between public policy analysis and Defence Studies.

Historical methods in defence and war studies: The case of historical defence studies in France

This chapter’s main goal is to map and survey the researchers, facilities and methods in the field of defence history in the French case.

Defence studies and geographic methodology: From the practical to the critical approach

This chapter discusses the methodology by presenting a genealogy of the links between geography and defence studies and show how intertwined geography and military issues