Arguing against security communitarianism
In: Critical studies on security, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 176-181
ISSN: 2162-4909
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In: Critical studies on security, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 176-181
ISSN: 2162-4909
In: Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings, S. 19-39
In: Third world quarterly, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 1098-1114
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Perceptions: journal of international affairs, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 9-24
ISSN: 1300-8641
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 38, Heft 5, S. 1099-1115
ISSN: 0260-2105
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 38, Heft 5, S. 1099-1115
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractThe purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to consider the extent to which Dialogue of Civilisations (DoC) initiatives, as alternative visions of post-secular world order, are likely to address insecurities that they identify; and (2) to point to other insecurities that are likely to remain unidentified and unaddressed in the process. In their present conception, DoC initiatives risk falling short of addressing the very insecurities they prioritise (the stability of inter-state order) let alone attending to those experienced by non-state referents, which they overlook. The article advances three points in three steps. First, I point to how projects of civilisational dialogue have bracketed civilisation, thereby leaving intact the Huntingtonian notion of civilisations as religiously unified autochthonous entities. Second, I argue that while contributing to opening up space for communication, DoC initiatives have nevertheless failed to employ a dialogical approach to dialogue between civilisations. Third, I tease out the notion of security underpinning DoC initiatives and argue that the proponents DoC, in their haste to avert a clash, have defined security narrowly as the absence of war between states belonging to different civilisations. Theirs is also a shallow notion of security insofar as it fails to capture the derivative character of security and insecurity.
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 38, Heft 5, S. 1099-1115
ISSN: 0260-2105
World Affairs Online
In: Security dialogue, Band 42, Heft 4-5, S. 399-412
ISSN: 1460-3640
Copenhagen School securitization theory has made significant inroads into the study of security in Western Europe. In recent years, it has also begun to gain a presence elsewhere. This is somewhat unanticipated. Given the worldwide prevalence of mainstream approaches to security, the nature of peripheral international relations, and the Western European origins and focus of the theory, there is no obvious reason to expect securitization theory to have a significant presence outside Western Europe. Adopting a reflexive notion of theory allows, the article argues, inquiry into the politics of studying security, which in turn reveals how the Western European origins and focus of securitization theory may be a factor enhancing its potential for adoption by others depending on the historico-political context. Focusing on the case of Turkey, the article locates the security literature of that country in the context of debates on accession to the European Union and highlights how securitization theory is utilized by Turkey's authors as a 'Western European approach' to security.
In: Third world quarterly, Band 31, Heft 5, S. 817-828
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Security dialogue, Band 41, Heft 6, S. 615-622
ISSN: 1460-3640
Unlike some other staples of security studies that do not even register the issue, Buzan & Hansen's (2009) The Evolution of International Security Studies unambiguously identifies 'Western-centrism' as a problem. This article seeks to make the point, however, that treating heretofore-understudied insecurities (such as those experienced in the non-West) as a 'blind spot' of the discipline may prevent us from fully recognizing the ways in which such 'historical absences' have been constitutive of security both in theory and in practice. Put differently, the discipline's 'Western-centric' character is no mere challenge for students of security studies. The 'historical absence' from security studies of non-Western insecurities and approaches has been a 'constitutive practice' that has shaped (and continues to shape) both the discipline and subjects and objects of security in different parts of the world.
In: Security dialogue, Band 41, Heft 6, S. 615-623
ISSN: 0967-0106
In: New Perspectives on Turkey, Heft 40, S. 103-123
In: International political sociology, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 338-342
ISSN: 1749-5687
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 227-228
ISSN: 1477-9021
In: Third world quarterly, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 5-23
ISSN: 1360-2241