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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
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After the Cold War Theo Farrell, CSI Lecture 1, 2011
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