Ken Booth
A person's beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture.
What is "Cultural Relativism?
Specialized language on the nature of nuclear strategic thinking
What is 'Techno-strategic"?
A sub-field within international relations that focuses on security, military conflict or violence
What is "Security Studies"?
A political strategy to extend ones power through diplomacy or military force
What is "Imperialism"?
A concept on how citizens construct experiences of security and insecurity in their own vocabularies of understanding
What is "Security Speak"?
Inability of an individual or group to see the world through the eyes of a different national or ethnic group?
What is "Culture-Bound"?
A belief that violence, including war is unjustifiable. That the value of human life is high and disputes should be peaceful
What is "Pacifism"?
The way people are 'self-aware' of there surrounding, ideologies and social reality around them
What is a "Reflectivist"?
A worldview that is focused on the western world and is favoured over non-western civilization
What is "Eurocentrism"?
A study that focuses on the daily practice of protection and as humans we are cautious of the conflicts occurring in society.
What is "Everyday Security Studies"?
It is seen as extreme stereotyping, some writers prefer to talk about ‘national styles'?
What is "National Character"?
A belief that can be explained by breaking things down into simple components
What is a reductionist?
The process of being set free from social or political restrictions; a form of liberation
What is "Emancipation"?
Refer to Photo.
This photo portrayed worldwide rivalry between
superpowers and scared the world of nuclear war in 1962
What is the "Cuban Missile Crisis"?
Lee Jarvis "raises questions regarding the relationship between the individual and the state, and regarding state sovereignty"
What referent does he refer to?
What is "Human Security"?
Where groups called states deal with each other in the most tactical, but brutal way
What is "Military Strategy"?
A theory used by Cohn that critiques mens perspective on warfare and use of phallic language
What is feminism?
Took the perspective of the weaker/poorer states of the world and focused on security
What is "Third World Security School"?
A theory in IR where social bonds connect people together to build communities and that humans should be world citizens
What is "Cosmopolitanism"?
This approach turns way from the 'elitist' approach. It has potential to avoid some of the pitfalls
of better-established attempts to take this ordinariness seriously, and to open up
considerable new research areas within security studies
What is the "Bottom-Up Approach"?
It is seen as a cardinal tenet. It is the bedrock of the business of strategy
What is "Know the Enemy"?
Nuclear devises that are largely fusion therefore release a higher quantity of energy, and destructive explosive power
What are "Clean Bombs"?
It is a school which focuses on the practice of securitization
What is a "Copenhagen School"?
A frameworks that organizes the world in 'spatial' terms and locates these actors, events, both in relation to each other and to world politics
What is "Spatial Assumption"?
A state where an individual WOULD NOT feel comfortable of their national identity would be an example of this 'security'
What is "Ontological (In)-security"