Critical Security Studies

Critical Security Studies
This article refers to those theories that reject 'mainstream' security theories. For the critical school of security studies associated with Aberystwyth see Welsh School (Security Studies)


Critical Security Studies is an academic discipline within security studies which rejects mainstream approaches to security

Definition

Some use the term critical security studies to refer to all approaches that are critical of mainstream/orthodox realist approaches. Others see Critical Security Studies as a distinct approach in its own right committed to emancipatory theory.[1]

References

  1. ^ Williams, Paul (2005) 'Critical Security Studies' in International Society and Its Critics, A. Bellamy (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, P. 135

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