Welsh School (security studies) explained

The Welsh School (sometimes the Aberystwyth School) also known as emancipatory realism is a school within the discipline of security studies. It is a critical approach that aims to link security to critical theory^[1] and which relies upon insights from the Frankfurt School and Gramscian thinking for its framework. Key academics considered part of the Welsh School include Ken Booth and Richard Wyn Jones.^[2]

See also

• Critical Security Studies
• Copenhagen School (international relations)
• Paris School (Security Studies)

Notes and References

1. Vaughn-Williams, Nick. Peoples, Columba (2010) Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, Abingdon, Routledge, PP. 17-18
2. Floyd, Rita (2007) ‘Towards a consequentialist evaluation of security: bringing the Copenhagen and Welsh Schools of security studies’, British International Studies Association, 33/1: 328