Constructivist Security Studies: Portrait of a Research Program

• Published in: International Studies Review Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 49 - 72
• Main Author: Farrell, Theo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing, Inc 01.04.2002; Blackwell Publishing
• Subjects: Constructivism; Epistemology; International politics; International Relations; International relations theory; International security; Japanese culture; Liberalism; Methodology (Philosophical); Military culture; National security; Ontology; Paradigms; Positivism; Realism; Reflection and Reappraisal; Security; Security studies; Social Constructionism; Social constructivism; War

The traditional focus on power and politics in security studies has been robustly challenged this decade by the development of two ideational approaches to the subject: constructivism and culturalism. The first section briefly examines these two literatures, considers how they have differed in the p...