Code Red: Colouring the International
Security studies needs to go beyond its chromophobia (its avoidance of colour) and see how colour-use operates in the enactment and (re-)appropriation of security.
Interview – Paul Higate
Dr. Higate reflects on military masculinities, developments in the private military security industry, and the role of UN peacekeepers in shaping perceptions of security.
Emotions in IR: The ‘Dog That Did Not Bark’
This brief exploration highlights the extent to which emotions have a social, cultural and political dimension that is pervasive at the international level.
The Peloponnesian War and Killer Robots: Norms of Protection in Security Policy
We need not be grateful for the ‘protection’ of killer robots; we may instead mimic Lysistrata and humanize the very structure of protection in the 21st century.
Vernacular Securities and Everyday Life
Security studies doesn’t engage with vernacular, or everyday, experiences of security. As such, its authority to discuss contemporary sources of insecurity is greatly reduced.
Police and Critical Security Studies
Gaining an understanding of how security operates compels the researcher to question concepts of subjective and objective and replace them with the fact of inter-subjectivity.
