Contemporary Security Studies Alan Collins

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Contemporary Security StudiesAlan Collins

• Deepening and Broadening Security
• Societal Security

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Introduction
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Introduction

• Duality of State and Societal Security

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Societal Security

• Society and Societal Identity

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Society and Societal Identity
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Society and Societal Identity
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Societal Security

• Threats to Societal Identity

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Threats to Societal Identity
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Threats to Societal Identity
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Threats to Societal Identity
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Societal Security

• Defending Societal Identity

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Defending Societal Identity

• Military and Non-Military Defence

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Defending Societal IdentityIntra-state Defence
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Societal Security

• Societal Security Dilemmas

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Societal Security Dilemmas
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Transylvanian Security Dilemma
Romanian Cultural Identity Threatened dependent
on cultural and linguistic dominance
Hungarian Identity dependent on the separation of
secondary and higher education
Spiral of Nationalisms leads to regional and
ethnic violence
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Societal Security Dilemmas
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Societal Security

• Conclusion
• Societal Security
• A Useful Analytical Concept?

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Critiques of the Copenhagen Schools
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Responding to Conceptual Charges

• Charge Society is constantly (re)constructed to
  be a single identity
• Answer - It may be possible to study specific
  events at a specific time
• Charge -Who speaks for society if not the state?
• Answer - States and societies do not always
  collide
• Charge - The political implications of voicing
  societal security
• Answer - Utility of the concept is commensurate
  to potential danger

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Responding to Conceptual ChargesA Limited
Application Potential?

• Understanding Multi-Ethnic States in
• Developing Countries
• During the process of nation-building state
  regimes
• will need to assimilate minority
  differences
• Lack of cohesion between state and society
  undermines the strength of the state
• Weak state dilemmas create societal
  insecurities.