Introductory Lecture on how to cope with

dr eng. Jerzy DEREN

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
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Thursday, 23 August 2012

Dedicated to my hospitable Turkish Friends from HQ NRDC-TU, Istanbul

Peace at Home, Peace in the World Mustafa Kemal Atatrk

"Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say 'What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?' If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness."

IN REGARDS OF INTEROPERABILITY

Thursday, 23 August 2012

What Is Security Studies?

Welcome to Security Studies: the sub-discipline of International Relations
It is the survival of agents that has been the dominant explanatory tool for understanding behaviour For much of the discipline the agent has meant sovereign states Security is a matter of high-politics; central to policy-making and the priorities they establish
No way to neglect these guidance during further analysis

Walter E. (Emmanuel) Carlsnaes (Editor), Thomas Risse (Editor), Beth A Simmons (Editor)

Strategic (security) studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning the relationship between politics, geography , geopolitics, history and natural resources, economics, and military power, such as the role of intelligence, diplomacy and threats in the preparation and use of force. The subject is normally taught at the postgraduate academic or professional, usually military and private security, levels.

What Does It Mean to be Secure? Security Studies is threats to survival but those threats are far reaching

Definition of Security

What Threats?

Organised State Violence

Beyond the State

Definition of Security
The lines between International Relations, Political Science and Security Studies have been blurred
Globalization has led to internal issues becoming externalised and external issues internalised: Broadening Referent objects and the means to security beyond the state Deepening Questioning past assumptions as a possible cause of insecurity

Approaches to Security Studies

The Broadening Security Agenda

The theoretical approach you take will determine the type of subjects you consider to constitute security

Conclusion How Security Studies be Studied?

Conclusion
The past, present and future of Security Studies Contemporary Security Studies should present you with the state of security studies and the types of theorising that have taken place within the discipline:
The context of why we think about the subject the way we do

There is no right or wrong!

Components of human security as per the HDR 1994 report

Tadjbakhsh, S. and A. Chenoy (2007). Human Security: Concepts and Implications. New York, Routledge. pp. 128-129

Capabilities in the past and as of today

QUESTIONS?