The Welsh School (sometimes the Aberystwyth School) also known as emancipatory realism is a school within the discipline of
security studies
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. It is a critical approach that aims to link security to
critical theory
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and which relies upon insights from the
Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School (german: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), dur ...
and Gramscian thinking for its framework. Key academics considered part of the Welsh School include
Ken Booth and
Richard Wyn Jones
Richard Wyn Jones is a Welsh academic at Cardiff University, where he is Director of Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre and Dean of Public Affairs. Jones was a former Professor of Welsh Politics at Cardiff as well as the founding Di ...
.
[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]
See also
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Critical Security Studies
Critical security studies (CSS) is an academic discipline within security studies which draws on critical theory to revise and, at times, reject the narrow focus of mainstream approaches to security. Similarly to the case of critical international ...
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Copenhagen School (international relations)
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Paris School (Security Studies) International Political Sociology (IPS) is an interdisciplinary field and set of approaches at the crossroads of international relations theory and other disciplines such as sociology, geography and anthropology. It is structured around initiatives ...
References
Security studies
Critical theory
Frankfurt School
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