Security

Review – The Routledge Handbook of European Security

Paul A. van Hooft • Aug 12 2013 • Features

Despite some problems, this volume systematically captures and delineates the complexity that makes up the structures and outcomes of European security institutions.

The EU’s Democracy-Stability Dilemma Persists in Egypt

Sally Khalifa Isaac • Aug 1 2013 • Articles

Negative assessments of Egypt’s democratic transition contrasted with positive assessments of its foreign policies suggests that the democracy-stability dilemma persists in EU-Egyptian relations.

Review – Feminist Security Studies

Maria Martin de Almagro • Jul 29 2013 • Features

Wibben’s advocacy for a more self-reflexive approach in which the researcher actively listens to her subjects constitutes a democratization of research in a field very much in need of it.

Europe’s Last Chance Saloon

Anand Menon • Jul 28 2013 • Articles

Europe’s increasing military shortcomings need addressing. If Europeans aspire to exert real influence over international security affairs, they must do so collectively, or not at all.

Review – Ontological Security in International Relations

Luke M. Herrington • Jul 27 2013 • Features

Steele’s well-researched book convincingly appends the field’s more materialist notions of security, but the merits lie as much with its novel conclusions as they do with the ideas it inspires.

Review – The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies

Stephane J. Baele • Jul 4 2013 • Features

While suffering from some structural concerns, this handbook offers a resourceful journey across an impressive number of ‘new’ security threats.

Student Book Features: Critical Approaches to Security

Rhys Crilley • Jun 28 2013 • Features

These two edited collections provide detailed accounts of critical methodologies and methods, and are a welcome addition to a sub field that is seemingly no longer at the margins.

Vernacular Securities and Everyday Life

Michael Lister and Lee Jarvis • Jun 19 2013 • Articles

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.

Norms on Gender Equality and Violent Conflict

Åsa Ekvall • Jun 10 2013 • Articles

Åsa Ekvall investigates the strong correlation between gender equality and violent conflict and finds that although causality is difficult to prove there is still value in examining the link between the two.

“Killer Robots”: Double Standards? Blind Faith?

Michael Aaronson • Jun 7 2013 • Articles

It is strange that we vest in a piece of machinery the moral blame that belongs to humans, and alarming that faith in technology and the power of numbers is leading us down a dangerous path.

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