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Concept

gomikayoko — 2016-11-14 17:11:38 UTC

- adopts overtly normative approach
-questions the primacy of state security and instead seeks to ascertain the conditions for achieving individual security from the broader threats of poverty political pooression and environmental degradation, as well as violence and conflict

aim is thus to free from false consciousness of seeing security as belonging to the state and the military. (RITA FLOYD 2007)

'Human emancipation'....'onlyt the prospect of emancipation can make security more likely' 42 smith p3
Emancipation
1. is not at the expense of other
2. is not synonymous with westernisation
3. is not a universal timeless concept
1. it is a strategic process
2. it is a tactical goal

limitation/ criticism

gomikayoko — 2016-11-14 17:11:45 UTC

Emancipation which seems as continuing the peace studies tradition.
1. it is more a method of asking questions than a theory of politics... implications for political practice are not clearly discernible (Smith 44)
2. it is instinctively moralistic: good ends must be met with good means.
3. it does not have a theory of politics or power.

imposes a model of contemporary western politics....that are far removed from third world realities. ------ Ayoob/ realist/ security = state (smith)

the biggest problem with Booth and Wyn Jones’ approach is where does security stop? Neither of the two theorists oﬀers guidelines for when an issue is not a security issue, always implying the more security the better. If however, all issues are framed in security terms, what then is the value of framing anything as a security issue? (RITA FLOYD 2007)

Security threats rather lie with those issues which are not self-inﬂicted, often stemming from social inequality and underdevelopment. Since neither human needs, nor threats to individual security are explicitly deﬁned it is still not clear when normal politics ends and the need for security begins.(RITA FLOYD 2007)

Emancipation : desire for emancipation is universally valid?
Western emancipation vs Middle East/ Muslims 9/11(Bilgin 2008 p101)

Strength

gomikayoko — 2016-11-14 17:12:54 UTC

in accordance with the premises of Frankfurt School Critical Theory – argues that an alternative reality is possible, if security is understood as emancipation.

Basic Information/ Welsh (Normative)

gomikayoko — 2016-11-16 01:28:40 UTC

Welsh school/ Aberystwyth(university) at Weals (Brgin 2008, p)

The Welsh School begins their critique by arguing that in the changed post-Cold War world state-centric realism can no longer satisfactorily explain the complex web of world politics. (RITA FLOYD 2007)

Basic Info / Copenhagen (Analytical

gomikayoko — 2016-11-16 01:35:42 UTC

constractivism and poststructuralism.(Brgin 2008, p94)

Denmark. Ole Wæver (Speech Act) and Barry Buzan('securitisation')
sectors of security, regional security complex theory and securitisation theory = ‘negative’ (RITA FLOYD 2007)
developing new analytical -- rather than explicitly normative -- approach to the study
- much more sceptical about the merits of including issues such as poverty and environment.

SSvsCSS

gomikayoko — 2016-11-16 18:59:02 UTC

Traditional and Critical approaches differ most notably in their treatment of the state.
SS: the world from a state-centric perspective.
CSS: states are a means and not the ends of security policy, should be de- centeric.(Booth 1991a) (Brgin 2008, p94)