The Third World Security School is a name given to a school of thought in

security studies __NOTOC__ 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 s ...

that focuses on the security concerns of the so-called

Third World The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the " First ...

. Roe cites Ayoob and Job as examples of academics whose scholarship belongs to this school. One of the first major statements of this school came from

Caroline Thomas Caroline Thomas (1959 - 20 October 2008) was an international relations academic and a leading authority on the politics of development. Her work In Search of Security was an early contribution to the 'widening' debate within security studies. ...

and her 1987 work '' In Search of Security''.Stuart Croft, Terry Terriff (2000), ''Critical reflections on security and change'',Oregon: Frank Cass Publishers, p. 81

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