PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading listthe precise content may change in future years.

Term 1, Week 2
WHATS NEW ABOUT NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES?
Study Questions:

What is security?

What explains the development of calls to broaden and deepen the security agenda at the
end of 20th century?

How new are New Security Challenges?

Essential Reading

Booth, K. (1991) Security and Emancipation, Review of International Studies 17(4) pp.313327.

Smith, S., The contested concept of security in Booth (ed.), Critical Security Studies (Lynne
Rienner, 2005).

Wver, O. (1995) Securitization and desecuritization, in R.D. Lipschutz (ed.), On Security

(Columbia UP), pp. 46-86. (E-Book)

Campbell, D. (1998) Writing Security. United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of
Identity (University of Minnesota Press), Introduction and chapter 3. (Because of copyright
only one chapter can be scanned - please go to the library for chapter 3)

General Overviews

Baldwin, D. Review Article: Security Studies and the End of the Cold War, World Politics, 48
(1995), 117-41.

Baylis, J., International and Global Security in the Post-Cold War Era, in Baylis, J. & Smith, S.
(eds), The Globalization of World Politics (OUP, 3rd ed, 2004).

Brincat, S., Lima, L. and Nunes, J. (eds) Critical Theory in International Relations and Security
Studies: Interviews and Reflections (Routledge, 2012).

Buzan, B., People, States and Fear, 2nd ed. (Lynne Rienner, 1991).

Buzan, B. and L. Hansen (2009) The Evolution of International Security Studies (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press) chs.6-7.

Collins, A. (ed.) (2010) Contemporary Security Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Second Edition. Chs 1-10.

Fierke, K. Critical Approaches to International Security (Polity, 2007) chs.3,4,5,7,9.

Haftendorn, H., The Security Puzzle, International Studies Quarterly, 35 (1991), 3-17.

Kolodziej, E., Security and International Relations (Cambridge UP, 2005). Chapter 1.

Liotta, P. H., Through the Looking Glass: Creeping Vulnerabilities and the Reordering of
Security, Security Dialogue 36:1 (2005), pp.49-70.

Matthews, J. T. (1989) Redefining Security, Foreign Affairs, 68(2) pp.162-77.

McSweeney, B., Security, Identity and Interests (Cambridge UP, 1999), esp. introduction,
chapter 1.

Peoples, C. and N Vaughan-Williams (2010) Critical Security Studies: An

Introduction (London: Routledge) chs 1-5

Rothschild, E., What is security? Daedalus, 124:3 (1995), 53-99.

Sheehan, M. (2005) International Security: An Analytical Survey (Lynne Rienner) chs.1-4.

Smith, M. (2010) International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan) chs13.

Smith, S., The Increasing Insecurity of Security Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, 20:3
(1999), 72-101.

Snyder, C. (ed.) Contemporary Security and Strategy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) chs. 1-4.

Tickner, J.A., Re-visioning security in K. Booth & S. Smith (eds), International Relations
Theory Today (Polity Press, 1995), pp. 175-97.

Ullman, R. H., Redefining Security, International Security, 8:1 (1983), 129-53.

Williams, Paul (ed.) Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2008) chs 1-9.

Human Security

Axworthy, L. Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First, Global
Governance, 7:1 (2001), 19-23.

Bellamy, A.J. & M. McDonald, The Utility of Human Security: Which Humans? What
Security?, Security Dialogue, 33:3 (2002). And response by Tow & Thomas.

Bilgin, P. Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security, International Studies Review, Vol. 5
(2003), 202-22.

Chandler, D. (2008) Human Security: The dog that didnt bark, Security Dialogue 39(4),
pp.427-38. Plus the following articles by Ambrosetti, Owen and Wibben.

Christie, R. (2010) Critical Voices and Human Security, Security Dialogue 41(2), pp.169-90.

Final Report of The Commission on Human Security (New York,

2003). http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/

King, G. & C.J.L. Murray (2001-02) Rethinking Human Security, Political Science Quarterly,
116(4), pp.585-610.

McDonald, M. Human Security and the Construction of Security, Global Society, 16:3 (2002),
277-95.

Newman, E. (2010) Critical human security studies, Review of International Studies 36(1),
pp.77-94.

Owen, T. (ed.), Special Section on Human Security, Security Dialogue, 35:3 (2004), 345-87.

Paris, R. (2001) Human Security: Paradigm shift or hot air?, International Security, 26(2), 87102.

Security Dialogue (2004) Special Symposium on Human Security?, 35(3), 345-87.

Thomas, N. & W.T. Tow, The Utility of Human Security: Sovereignty and Humanitarian
Intervention, Security Dialogue, 33:2 (2002), 177-92.

UNDP, Human Development Report, 1994 (Oxford UP, 1994).

Constructivist Security

Booth, K., Cold Wars of the Mind in Booth, K. (ed.), Statecraft and Security (CUP, 1998),
pp.29-55.

Buzan, B. et al., Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Lynne Rienner, 1998) chs 1, 2, 8 & 9.

Ciuta, Felix, Narratives of Security: Strategy and Identity in the European Context, in
Richard Mole (ed.) Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007) ch.10.

Ciuta, F. (2009) Security and the problem of context: a hermeneutical critique of

securitisation theory, Review of International Studies 35, pp.301-26.

Desch, M.C., Culture Clash: Assessing the Importance of Ideas in Security

Studies, International Security, 23:1 (1998), 141-70.

Farrell, T., Constructivist Security Studies, International Studies Review, 4:1 (2002), pp. 4972.

Hopf, T., The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory, International

Security, 23:1 (1998), pp.171-200.

Katzenstein, P. (ed.), The Culture of National Security (Columbia UP, 1996).

McDonald, M. (2008) Securitization and the Construction of Security, European Journal of

International Relations14(4), pp.563-87.

McSweeney, B., Security, Identity and Interests: A Sociology of International Relations (CUP,
1999), chs 1 & 5-9.

Reus-Smit, C. Constructivism in Scott Burchill et al., Theories of International

Relations (Palgrave, 2nd edn, 2001), pp.209-230.

Wendt, A., Anarchy is What States Make of It: The social construction of power
politics, International Organization, 46:2 (1992), pp.391-425.

Critical Security Studies

Bilgin, P. Critical Theory, in Paul Williams (ed.) Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge,
2008)

Booth, K., (ed.) Critical Security Studies and World Politics (Lynne Rienner, 2005).

Booth, K. (2007) Theory of World Security (Cambridge: CUP).

Krause, K., Critical Theory and Security Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, 33:3 (1998),
pp.298-333.

Krause, K. & M.C. Williams (eds), Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases (UCL Press,
1997), esp. preface & chs 2, 4 & 6.

Nunes, J.,'Reclaiming the Political: Emancipation and Critique in Security Studies', Security
Dialogue, 43:4 (2012), pp. 345-361.

Steans, J., Gender and International Relations (Cambridge UP, 1998), ch. on security.

Wyn Jones, R., Security, Strategy and Critical Theory (Lynne Rienner, 1999).

Wyn Jones, R., Message in a Bottle? Theory and Praxis in Critical Security
Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, 16:3 (1995), pp.299-319.

Post-structural approaches to security:

Bigo, D. International Political Sociology, in P. Williams (Ed.), Security Studies: An

Introduction, (Routledge, 2008), pp. 116-128.

Bigo, D., S. Carrera, E. Guild, R.B.J. Walker, The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and
Security: Mid-Term Report on the Results of the CHALLENGE Project, available
at http://www.libertysecurity.org

Campbell, D., Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of
Identity (Manchester University Press, 1998) Ch.3, 4.

Campbell, D., National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia (Uni
Minnesota Press, 1998).

Der Derian, J., The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche and Baudrillard, in Campbell,
D. & Dillon, M. (eds),The Political Subject of Violence (MUP, 1993), pp.94-113.

Der Derian, J., Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment

Network (Westview, 2001), see especially pp.xi-xxii.

Dillon, M., The Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental

Thought, (1996).

Edkins, J., 'Security, Cosmology, Copenhagen', Contemporary Politics, September 2003 (vol 9,
no 4): 361-370.

Edkins, J., After the Subject of International Security, in A. Finlayson and J. Valentine
(Eds.), Politics and Poststructuralism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002), pp.68-80.

Hansen, L., A Case for Seduction? Evaluating the Poststructuralist Conceptualization of

Security, Cooperation and Conflict, 32:4 (1997), 369-98.

Klein, B. Strategic Studies and World Order (Cambridge UP, 1994).

Peterson V. S., Security and Sovereign States in V. S. Peterson (Ed) Gendered States:
Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1992)

Peoples., C. and N.Vaughan-Williams Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge,

2010) (Chapter 4)

Shapiro, Michael J. Violent Cartographies, (1997), especially chapters 2, 3, 4.

Walker, R. B. J. The Subject of Security, in K. Krause and M. C. Williams (Eds) Critical Security
Studies: Concepts and Cases (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 61-82.

Walker, R. B. J. et al Special Issue of Security Dialogue, 37(1), (March 2006).

See also essays available on the web-pages of the EU funded CHALLENGE

project: http://www.libertysecurity.org

Williams, M. C. Identity and the Politics of Security, European Journal of International

Relations 4(2) (1998), pp. 204-225.