Theo Farrell, CSI Lecture 1, 2011

Not all dreadful..

The Love Cats
 We move like cagey tigers | We couldn't get closer than this
 The way we walk | The way we talk
 The way we stalk | The way we kiss
 We slip through the streets | While everyone sleeps
 Getting bigger and sleeker | And wider and brighter
 We bite and scratch and scream all night

Cold War ‘security’ studies
 States
 Strategy
 Science
 Status quo

More dangerous?
John Mueller, ‘The Quest for Trouble’ (1995).
 Clinton: ‘world is free but less stable’ (1993).
 Simplifying the past
 Knocking nationalism
 Redefining stability
 Elevating small problems

Post-Cold War security studies?
David Baldwin, World Politics (1995)
 Do nothing – the neorealist way
 Modest reform – regional security
 Radical reform – open up concept of security

Buzan, People, States and Fear (1983)
Five sectors:
 Military
 Political
 Economic
 Societal
 Environmental

Essentially contested concept
 What is security?
 Whose security?
 What is a security issue?
 How can security be achieved?

What is security?
 Barry Buzan: ‘freedom from threat’
 Ken Booth: ‘survival-plus’ – lifiting people out of oppressions such as war and poverty
 ‘Freedom from’ v. ‘freedom to’

Whose security?
 Referent object?
 Rise of the state
 Buzan (neorealist): states
 Booth (critical theorist): people

What is a security issue?
 David Campbell, Writing Security (1992)
 Securitzation theory: mobilising the state
 Threats, Challenges and Change (2004): mobilising the international community

How can security be achieved?
 Realism = national security
 Liberalism = international security
 Critical theory = emancipation

Post-Cold War security challenges
 Failed and murderous states
 American power and rising challengers
 Nuclear proliferation
 The Iraq Wars
 Global terrorism
 COIN and Afghanistan