World Security in the 21st Century: Re-evaluating Booth’s Approach to Critical Security Studies
World Security works best when it is a community of lowercase ‘world securities’, fails ambitiously and continuously, collaborates, and learns.
Critical Security Studies Needs to Better Consider the Intricacies of Social Media
There is no formula for deciding who on social media rises to prominence as a security influencer in any given context, and influence in this case is ephemeral and short-lived.
Visual Methods and International Security Studies
If texts anchor and give visuals meaning, then visuals can also be said to anchor and provide meaning to text. Seeing, combatting, and studying (in)security requires more than words.
Interview – Dean Cooper-Cunningham
Dean Cooper-Cunningham discusses the benefits of using visual methods in IR, responses to Russian political queerphobia and the visuality of resistance and (in)security.
Review – From Righteousness to Far Right
Mc Cluskey proposes an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies by focusing on the response of a small Swedish village to 100 resettled Syrian refugees.
Interview – Pınar Bilgin
Pınar Bilgin explores her research on international political sociology, postcolonial thought and critical security studies, particulalry in relation to the Global South.
Interview – Jonna Nyman
Jonna Nyman discusses the ‘energy security paradox’, energy securitisation, her fieldwork in China and current research that seeks to understand security beyond the West.
Interview – Lene Hansen
Prof. Lene Hansen discusses securitization scholarship, developments in discourse analysis, and the role of images and the ‘visual turn’ in International Relations.
Strategy Not Sacrilege: State Terrorism as an Element of Foreign Policy
Relying on case studies of Pakistan and the U.S., this essay argues that the state’s use of terrorism be more fully integrated into the study of foreign policy.
Interview – Holger Stritzel
Dr Stritzel discusses what it means to be “critical”, assesses developments in securitization studies, and gives some advice for young Critical Security Studies scholars.
