Europe’s Last Chance Saloon
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
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
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
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
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 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?
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.
Student Book Features: EU Studies
EU studies is a field with an immense range of student-facing textbooks available, and also an ever growing number of texts dedicated to sub-areas such as EU security.
Escalation Gambit: North Korea’s Perilous Play for Security and Prosperity
The hostile posturing of the North Korean leadership is decipherable if located within the context of its symbiotic national security and economic development goals.
Review – The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security
In a context where global religious movements cannot be separated from issues of governance, politics, or security this book fills a serious lacuna in the field of security studies.
