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. What is Critical Security Studies?

An approach to security that applies critical knowledge to established orthodoxies of security studies. correct incorrect

A specific theory of security that identifies clearly defined agents, threats, and processes. correct incorrect

A secondary term for the Copenhagen School of Security. correct incorrect

A study of security in which the critical importance of the state, military, and traditional security are maintained. correct incorrect

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. Within Critical Security Studies, what is the referent object of security?

There is no specific referent point. correct incorrect

The state and state apparatus. correct incorrect

The environment. correct incorrect

The people and their collectives. correct incorrect

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. Which three questions about security does the Welsh School aim to serve as a basis for answering?

What is security? Who is to be secured? By what means? correct incorrect

How can the state be secure? What are the biggest security threats? How can these be overcome? correct incorrect

What is real? What is knowledge? What is to be done? correct incorrect

Who is knowledge for? How can knowledge be obtained? Who creates knowledge? correct incorrect

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. Which of these statements is not accurately applied to Critical Security Studies?

The referent object can be objectively studied and should be considered accordingly. correct incorrect

The security analyst and the object of the security should not be regarded as separate. correct incorrect

Critical Security Studies is a post-positivist approach. correct incorrect

Critical Security Studies questions the epistemological principles of other approaches in Security Studies. correct incorrect

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. According to Krause and Williams, what agenda would most likely attract scholars to the 'broad church' of security studies?

To question the referent object, to question the traditional conception of military security as paramount to the state, and to change the way in which security is studied. correct incorrect

To address security from a positivist perspective, challenging the dominance of traditional security paradigms, and shifting academic attention to the individual as a referent point. correct incorrect

To question the dominance of liberalism and realism in the international system, to apply critical knowledge to the security dilemma faced by states and to redress the power imbalances that lead to intra-state conflict. correct incorrect

To account for all possible referent objects and expand the definition of security so far as to allow for a broadening of the school to encompass any agent that threatens those referent objects. correct incorrect

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. According to Buzan, Wæver, and de Wilde, in what ways does the Copenhagen School's approach to Security Studies differ from that of Critical Security Studies'?

The theory and knowledge that underpin each approach are fundamentally at odds with one another. Whilst Critical Security Studies is post-structuralist and constructivist, the Copenhagen School is based on an objectivist epistemology. correct incorrect

Whilst Critical Security Studies regards security to be a social construction, based on the changeable ideas that form human society, the Copenhagen School disregards this epistemological approach and instead considers security as an issue to be studied objectively from a positivist approach. correct incorrect

Critical Security Studies regards security to be an empirically definable state, which should be studied from a positivist approach. However, the Copenhagen School views security as a socially constructed entity that denies the validity of an objective approach. correct incorrect

Neither Critical Security Studies nor the Copenhagen School account for the changing nature of society and its impact on the construction of security. correct incorrect

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. Which of the statements below is not one of the eight themes of post-Marxist critical security theory identified by Ken Booth as being important to critical security theory?

All knowledge is a social process. correct incorrect

The test of theory is emancipation. correct incorrect

Human society is a constant and unchanging phenomenon. correct incorrect

Human society is its own invention. correct incorrect

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. Which statement best describes Booth's attitude toward constructivism and post-structuralism within Critical Security Studies?

Post-structuralism provides no basis for political action, being a dangerous mix of faux radicalism, relativism, and obscurantism, whilst constructivism is an orientation to world politics rather than a specific political theory. correct incorrect

Constructivism offers a number of specific political theories applicable to Critical Security Studies but all of these lack the tenability required in security studies. Post-structuralist theories similarly lack the durability desired by CSS scholars. correct incorrect

Post-structuralism and constructivism are ill-defined theories that are better described as political orientations, applicable in vague terms but lacking the substance required by scholars in contemporary security studies. correct incorrect

Constructivism is too dangerous a mix of political ideologies, combining elements of radicalism and relativism. Post-structuralism is more of an orientation to world politics rather than a specific and applicable political theory. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the unifying principles of Critical Security Studies, as defined by Krause?

Principal actors are social constructs that are made through political practices. correct incorrect

Natural-science methodology is the best way to study social science, interpretive methodologies lack the coherence required for in-depth analysis. correct incorrect

Knowledge of the social world is not objective, as there is no divide between the social world and knowledge of that world. correct incorrect

The purpose of theory is not explanation in terms of generalizable causal claims, but contextual understanding and practical knowledge. correct incorrect

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. What are the themes that make post-structuralism a different field of study?

One of the founding assumptions of Critical Security Studies is that theories about the world constitute that world and thus that theory, including security theory, has political effects. The consequence is that theory is the product of the system, and that analyses of the agent of security and the referent object is produced by its own practices. correct incorrect

Central to the political and critical nature of post-structural literature is the idea of fostering an ethos of democracy and an ethos of critique which is finite and attainable. It is to this end that we must strive, but one that can only be met under the conditions prescribed, that of true democracy. correct incorrect

A central notion of critique is to provide an answer to the problem of what it means to be critical. This invariably raises the question of revealing the interest behind knowledge claims with the goal of social change, what is accepted as the end of theory: that the practical and contextual understandings inform to whom knowledge claims serve. correct incorrect

Poststructuralism accepts the form and foundations for knowledge claims that dominate the security studies debate. This has brought it into confrontation with the critical studies community, having little to contribute to the understanding of the ways in which knowledge is constructed. correct incorrect