Julian Junk - Transformations of Security Studies: Dialogues, Diversity and Discipline

This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to engage in a dialogue on key developments in the study of security.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical, empirical and methodological developments within security studies, the political and societal importance of which has grown significantly in recent years. By bringing together scholars who hold differing perspectives on security, this volume provides insights into a variety of approaches and their newest developments, including mainstream as well as heterodox perspectives on security. Thus, it aims to build bridges of communication between different camps by initiating a dialogue on the identity and diversity of security studies. It does so in three parts. The first part of the book includes paradigmatic approaches to security that are closely connected to major debates in international relations such as realism, institutionalism and constructivism as well as approaches to the culture and ethics of security and critical security studies. The second part places emphasis on the broadening and deepening of the concept of security in recent decades. It discusses key empirical frontiers including the continued centrality of the state, the link between democracy and security, and environmental security as well as financial security. The third part of the book presents various methodological approaches to the question of security and peace. It provides an overview of new approaches such as the visual turn, quantifying security and method combinations.

This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, international relations and research methods.

Gabi Schlag is Teaching Associate and Research Fellow at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, and holds a PhD from the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Julian Junk is a Researcher at both the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Christopher Daase is Professor of International Organization at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and co-editor of Rethinking Security Governance: The problem of unintended consequences , (Routledge, 2010, co-edited with Cornelius Friesendorf).

The aim of this book series is to gather state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research into a core set of volumes that respond vigorously and dynamically to the new challenges to security scholarship.

The Geopolitics of American Insecurity

Terror, power and foreign policy

Edited by Franois Debrix and Mark J. Lacy

Security, Risk and the Biometric State

Governing borders and bodies

Benjamin J. Muller

Security and Global Governmentality

Globalization, governance and the state

Edited by Miguel de Larrinaga and Marc G. Doucet

Critical Perspectives on Human Security

Rethinking emancipation and power in international relations

Edited by David Chandler and Nik Hynek

Securitization Theory

How security problems emerge and dissolve

Edited by Thierry Balzacq

Feminist Security Studies

A narrative approach

Annick T. R. Wibben

The Ethical Subject of Security

Geopolitical reason and the threat against Europe

J. Peter Burgess

Politics of Catastrophe

Genealogies of the unknown

Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster

Security, the Environment and Emancipation

Contestation over environmental change

Matt McDonald

Securitization, Accountability and Risk Management

Transforming the public security domain

Edited by Karin Svedberg Helgesson and Ulrika Mrth

Commercialising Security

Political consequences for European military operations

Edited by Anna Leander

Transnational Companies and Security Governance

Hybrid practices in a postcolonial world

Jana Hnke

Citizenship and Security

The constitution of political being

Edited by Xavier Guillaume and Jef Huysmans

Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health

A new theoretical perspective

Joo Nunes

Security, Technology and Global Politics

Thinking with Virilio

Mark Lacy

Critical Security and Chinese Politics

The Anti-Falungong Campaign

Juha A. Vuori

Governing Borders and Security

The politics of connectivity and dispersal

Edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson

Contesting Security

Strategies and logics

Edited by Thierry Balzacq

Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security

Peace anxieties

Edited by Bahar Rumelili

Biopolitics of Security

A political analytic of finitude

Michael Dillon

Security Expertise

Practice, power, responsibility

Edited by Trine Villumsen Berling and Christian Bueger

Transformations of Security Studies

Dialogues, diversity and discipline

Edited by Gabi Schlag, Julian Junk and Christopher Daase