After the Cold War 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