Are states really the most important actors in international security?

Essay

 

Write a 1.800 word essay in response to ONE of the questions below

 

• Are states really the most important actors in international security?
• Does the ‘responsibility to protect’ have a future?
• Why is security an ‘essentially contested’ term?

 

Please use Harvard referencing system.

 

Topics and readings covered in the module:

 

What is global security today? Mapping the field

 

• Williams, P. (2013a). 1. Security studies: an introduction, 2nd ed. London: Routledge. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.

 

• Ole Waever and Barry Buzan. (2013). Chapter: After the Return to Theory: the Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies. Contemporary security studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 417–435.

 

Realism: territory, sovereignty and security in the post-9/11 security environment

 

• Dunn Cavelty, M., Mauer, V. and Balzacq, T. (eds.). (2016b). The Routledge handbook of security studies. London: Routledge. Available from https://www-taylorfrancis-com.uow.idm.oclc.org/books/e/9781317620921.

 

• Mearsheimer, J.J. (1990). Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War. International Security, 15 (1). Available from https://doi.org/10.2307/2538981.

 

Liberalism, Governance & Security Institutions

 

• Martha Finnemore. (2009). Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be. World Politics, 61 (1), 58–85. Available from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40060221?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.

 

• Dunn Cavelty, M., Mauer, V. and Balzacq, T. (eds.). (2016c). The Routledge handbook of security studies. London: Routledge. Available from https://doi-org.uow.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781315753393.

 

 

 

The changing character of war

 

• Williams, P. (2013d). Security Studies: An Introduction. Routledge, 187–205. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.

 

• Barkawi, T. (2004). Connection and constitution: locating war and culture in globalization studies. Globalizations, 1 (2), 155–170. Available from https://doi.org/10.1080/1474773042000308532.

 

Security as Global Social Construction: Securitization and beyond

 

• Nyman, J. (2018). Security Studies: An Introduction. 100–113. Available from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/westminster/detail.action?docID=5295090.

 

• Wendt, A. (1995). Constructing International Politics. International Security, 20 (1). Available from https://doi.org/10.2307/2539217.

 

Security and Global Justice: Between ‘Human security’ and Emancipation.

 

• Williams, P. (2013f). Security studies: an introduction. London: Routledge. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.

 

• Dunne, T. and Wheeler, N.J. (2004). ‘We the Peoples’: Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights Theory and Practice. International Relations, 18 (1), 9–23. Available from https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117804041738.

 

 

Security and the Global Economy: Circulation, Capital and Violence

 

• Dunn Cavelty, M., Mauer, V. and Balzacq, T. (eds.). (2016d). The Routledge handbook of security studies. London: Routledge. Available from https://www-taylorfrancis-com.uow.idm.oclc.org/books/e/9781317620921.

 

• Campbell, D. (2007). The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire, and the Sports Utility Vehicle. In: Dauphinee, E. and Masters, C. (eds.). The logics of biopower and the War on Terror: living, dying, surviving. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 129–156. Available from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/westminster/detail.action?docID=4715751.

 

 

Risk and the Privatisation of security

 

• Bigo, D. (2013). International Political Sociology. London: Routledge, 120–134. Available from http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestminUni&isbn=9780203122570.

 

• Abrahamsen, R. and Williams, M.C. (2009). Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics. International Political Sociology, 3 (1), 1–17. Available from https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00060.x.

 

 

Security and Topology: The Securitization and Militarisation of Cities

 

• HOULIHAN, B. and GIULIANOTTI, R. (2012). Politics and the London 2012 Olympics: the (in)security Games. International Affairs, 88 (4), 701–717. Available from https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2012.01097.x.

 

• Elisabetta Brighi. (no date). Security, Society and the Games. Available from http://www.e-ir.info/2012/11/09/security-society-and-the-games/.