- "Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic sub-field within the wider discipline of international relations that studies organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international security."
Security Studies is the multidisciplinary field that examines the sources, dynamics, and consequences of threats to national and international security, focusing on military, political, societal, economic, and environmental aspects.
International Relations Theory: It provides an understanding of the global political environment and how states interact with each other.
Statecraft and Strategy: It is the art of formulating and implementing policies to achieve national security objectives.
Military Strategy: It includes the use of military force, technology, and tactics to achieve national objectives.
Security Governance: It covers the structures, processes, and institutions that are responsible for ensuring security.
Conflict and Conflict Resolution: It examines the causes of conflict and ways to resolve them.
Human Security: It focuses on the protection of individuals from various forms of violence and insecurity.
Intelligence and Espionage: It covers the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information to support national security objectives.
Terrorism and Counterterrorism: It covers the use of violence or the threat of violence to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.
Cybersecurity: It focuses on protecting computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access or attack.
Nonproliferation and Arms Control: It covers efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
Energy Security: It is the assurance that a country will have access to reliable and affordable sources of energy.
Economic Security: It covers the protection of a country's economic interests through policies such as trade and investment.
Environmental Security: It focuses on the protection of natural resources and ecosystems, which are essential to human security.
Gender and Security: It examines the ways in which gender affects security policies and outcomes.
Humanitarian Intervention: It covers actions taken by states and international organizations to protect civilians during times of conflict.
International Security Studies: This focuses on the study of war, peace, and conflict at the international level.
Strategic Studies: This focuses on the study of military and non-military strategies for achieving national security objectives.
Terrorism Studies: This focuses on the study of terrorism and its use as a tactic by both state and non-state actors.
Cybersecurity Studies: This focuses on the study of the protection of computer systems and networks from unauthorized access, theft, and damage.
Intelligence Studies: This focuses on the study of the intelligence-gathering processes of governments, including technologies and methods of intelligence analysis.
Human Security Studies: This focuses on the study of threats to the safety and well-being of individuals, communities, and societies.
Conflict Resolution Studies: This focuses on the study of methods for resolving conflict through negotiation, mediation, and other means.
Defense Studies: This focuses on the study of defense policy, military organization, and the use of military force.
Peacekeeping Studies: This focuses on the study of the methods and practices of international organizations and states for maintaining peace and stability in conflict-prone regions.
Nonproliferation Studies: This focuses on the study of efforts to inhibit or prevent the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
Arms Control Studies: This focuses on the study of measures taken to limit the production and deployment of arms and technology of mass destruction.
Environmental Security Studies: This focuses on the study of the interaction between security issues and environmental factors, such as resource scarcity and climate change.
Regional Security Studies: This focuses on the study of security issues at the regional level, including the causes and consequences of conflict in specific regions and sub-regions of the world.
Critical Security Studies: This focuses on the study of the underlying assumptions and discourses in traditional security studies, with an emphasis on the non-traditional and new approaches to security issues.
- "While the field (much like its parent field of international relations) is often meant to educate students who aspire to professional careers in think tanks, consulting, defense contractors, human rights NGOs or in government service positions focused on diplomacy, foreign policy, conflict resolution and prevention, emergency and disaster management, intelligence, and defense."
- "it can also be tailored to students seeking to professionally conduct academic research within academia, or as public intellectuals, pundits or journalists writing about security policy."
- "organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international security."
- "think tanks, consulting, defense contractors, human rights NGOs or in government service positions focused on diplomacy, foreign policy, conflict resolution and prevention, emergency and disaster management, intelligence, and defense."
- "tailored to students seeking to professionally conduct academic research within academia."
- "diplomacy, foreign policy, conflict resolution and prevention, emergency and disaster management, intelligence, and defense."
- "within the wider discipline of international relations."
- "much like its parent field of international relations."
- "organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international security."
- "focused on... conflict resolution and prevention."
- "focused on diplomacy, foreign policy."
- "focused on emergency and disaster management."
- "think tanks, consulting, defense contractors, human rights NGOs or in government service positions."
- "organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international security."
- "focused on... intelligence."
- "focused on... defense."
- "focused on... human rights NGOs."
- "educate students who aspire to professional careers."
- "as public intellectuals, pundits or journalists writing about security policy."