International Security

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International Security

• Week 2
• Introduction
• What is Security Studies?

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Session content

• Give you some contact details.
• Look through the reading list and explain a
  little about the details of the course.
• Spend remaining time talking about the
  relationship between strategic studies and IR
  theory - which we run onto more thoroughly next
  week.

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Contact details

• Dr Kevin Wright
• Room 5A.214
• Office Hours Wednesday 02.00 -
  13.00 Thursday 14.00 -15.00
• E-mail wrigka_at_essex.ac.uk
• Only here on a Wednesday/Thursday

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Text Books
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Cold War starting point

• Recent historical event - still forms much of
  current outlook and international organisation
• Still living with military political legacy of
  that time
• Provided much of early theoretical framework for
  discipline today

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Definitions of strategy
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Conceptions expectations of military -1

• Clausewitz strategy consisted of moral,
  physical, mathematical, geographical and
  statistical elements
• Michael Howard (1976)social, logistical,
  operational and technical dimensions.

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Conceptions expectations of military -2

• Colin Gray (1999)A much more detailed
  framework including people, society, culture,
  politics, ethics, economics, logistics,
  organisation, military administration,
  information and intelligence, theory, doctrine
  technology and so on. Which must all be fully
  considered in a proper way as they are all
  inter-related.

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Criticisms of strategic studies

• Concentration on conflict and force
• Does not adequately address ethical issues
• Is too state-centric
• Is not sufficiently scholarly