PICT110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Security, Security Dilemma, Liberal Democracy
23 May 2018
School
Course
Professor
6/ Week – Introduction to security
studies and strategic studies
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WHAT IS SECURITY;
1. Freedom from threats to core
values for both individuals and
groups (Baylis)
- Too broad does not specifically
define the who, what and from
2. Security itself is a relative freedom
from war, coupled with a relatively
high expectation that defeat will not
be consequence of any war that
should occur (Bellamy)
- referring to only war and conflict
- what is war?
- How do we define war?
- History once used the amount of
deaths of 1000ppl to define a war,
ut its still a shit if 999ppl die?
3. Security in any objective sense,
measures the absence of threats to
acquired values, in a subjective
sense, the absence of fear that such
values will be attached (Wolfers)
- How do you define objective and
subjective?
- How do you define rationality, ones
rational actions could be different
from another
4. If people, be they government
ministers or private individuals
perceive an issue to threatened
their lives in some way and respond
politically to this, then that issue
should be deemed to be a security
issues (Booth)
- Puts the identification of threats on
the person
DISAGREEMENTS
- Referent object – who? state? Individuals?
- Scope of security – from who? And what?
- The approach to security – how do we secure? Types of tools? Legislations?
Traditional
o Positivist theories / problem
solving
o Material
o Describes how the world is
o Realism – Neorealism, Classical
realism
o Liberalism – Neoliberals
Non-Traditional
o Post positivist
o Noratie – describes how the world
should be
o Questions the prevailing and power
relationships and institutions and argue
that no theory is politically neutral
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