SECURITY STUDIES and Security Studies
In: Security studies, Band 1, Heft 1, S. iv-iv
ISSN: 1556-1852
In: Security studies, Band 1, Heft 1, S. iv-iv
ISSN: 1556-1852
In: Arms control: the journal of arms control and disarmament, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 1
ISSN: 0144-0381
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"Feminist Security Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.
This chapter explores what a critical approach to UN peacekeeping entails and highlights the valuable contributions of Critical Security Studies (CSS) to capture the nature and significance of peace operations in international politics. It shows how CSS questions the values and representations that inform UN peacekeeping and the political order that peacekeeping interventions shape, promote or sustain. It further discusses how CSS unpacks peacekeeping (often mundane and daily) practices and their political and social implications and takes into account non-traditional security issues. The chapter then relies on CSS theoretical and methodological tools to study the specific case of the rise of environmental practices in UN peacekeeping. Drawing on the concepts of securitisation and environmentalisation, it demonstrates how UN peacekeeping has been framed as relevant to environmental policies, while contributing to a broader process of securitisation of the environment.
BASE
In: Security studies, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 698-697
ISSN: 0963-6412
In: Arms control: the journal of arms control and disarmament, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 464, 480,
ISSN: 0144-0381
In: Security studies, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 403-412
ISSN: 0963-6412
World Affairs Online
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 298-333
ISSN: 1460-3691
Security studies has been slow to accept critical challenges to its problematic, and these have often been met with hostility and deliberately marginalized. This article responds to some of the critiques, and outlines the main elements of a critical engagement with security studies. It discusses the intellectual and `disciplining' power of rationalist and neorealist security studies scholarship, and highlights some of the practices that marginalize critical scholarship. It then overviews the rich and diverse threads of current research within `critical security studies', and emphasizes the central themes of its research agenda: how threats and appropriate responses are constructed; how the `objects' of security are constructed; and what the possibilities are for the transformation of `security dilemmas'. It summarizes the six central claims (concerning the constitution of the actors of world politics, its dynamic and constructed nature, the concomitant epistemological claims and methodological tools, and the purpose of theorizing) that are the hallmark of a critical approach to security studies. Finally, it clarifies what these claims do and do not entail for research and practice in international security studies.
World Affairs Online
In: Security studies, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 403-412
ISSN: 1556-1852
In: Journal of Regional Security, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 143-161
ISSN: 2406-0364
This piece looks to backwards and forwards to what feminist work in security was, is, and could be, pairing a historical sociology with a forward-looking view of the future(s) of the field. It begins with thinking about feminist studies of security before FSS as a foundation for the discussion, then traces different claims to core identities of FSS. It then looks at divergent strands of FSS, as well as omissions and critiques. Rather than looking to reconcile those different accounts, it asks what can be taken from them to engage potential futures for FSS, and its contribution to feminisms and/or studies of security.
This reader brings together key contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, offering students an informed overview of the most significant work in security studies. The editors chart the development of the key theoretical and empirical debates in security studies in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, introducing the ideas of the most influential 'past masters' and contemporary thinkers on security in the UK, US and elsewhere.