Transformations of Security Studies

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).

• 1. Introduction: Dialogues on Security, Christopher Daase, Julian Junk and Gabi SchlagPart I: Paradigmatic Approaches to Security – Then and Now2. Realism: Not Expanding, But Still Evolving, Charles L. Glaser3. Is the Crisis of Security Institutions a Crisis of Institutionalist Theory?, Caroline Fehl4. Is There Life Beyond Language? Discourses of Security, Karin Fierke5. Cultures of Security: Explaining Extended Security, Christopher Daase 6. Security as Ethics, Peter J. Burgess Part II: The Subject of Security – Widening and Deepening the Concept of Security7. Power politics revisited: Are realist theories really at odds with the new security threats?, Carlo Masala8. Democratic Distinctiveness and the New Security Agenda, Wolfgang Wagner and Anna Geis9. Securing the Environment: From Defense to Resilience, Angela Oels and Chris Methmann 10. Financial Security, Nina Boy Part III: Methodologies of Security – Approaching the Limits of Security Analysis11. ‘Strong Objectivity’ in Security Studies: Ethnographic Contributions to Method Development, Anna Leander12. Imaging Security: A Visual Methodology for Security Studies, Gabi Schlag 13. Opportunities and Challenges of Quantifying Security, Hårvard Hegre and Idunn Kristiansen 14. Analyzing Hybrids. Actor-Network-Theory and Method Combinations in Security Studies, Valentin Rauer and Julian Junk15. Conclusion: A Dialogue on Security, Gabi Schlag, Julian Junk and Christopher Daase