CRM/LAW C7 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Critical Security Studies, Security Studies, Taken 2
26 May 2016
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Constructivists and realists agree on debates of international security. Other theorists believe that the state has been given too much power. Critical security studies: contemporary debates over the nature of security; often try to de-emphasize the role of the state and to reconceptualize security. States should not be the center of analysis. Can be a source of threat to their own people. Attention should be focused on the individual, not the state. Femisisits argue that documents have been written in the masculine point of view. If gender is studied better, critical perspectives will be added to the agenda & result will be different from the international security. Some argue that states are not withering away. They are being transformed as they adapt to new challenges. Marxist and radical liberal or utopian views on security. Marxists: capitalism is the source of most of the world s security problems. Workers in poorer states are more prone to being overthrown and exploited.
