Abstract
AbstractIn this essay we argue for the utility of moving from a “national” to an “entangled global” perspective on security. Focusing on the post-1945 international context, we discuss how the concept of “globality” can inform and reframe our understanding of transnational security dynamics and help move us beyond traditional state-centric frameworks. Such a move enables a better understanding of historical events and contemporary security dynamics than classical “national security” frameworks alone. After outlining the rationale behind our call for expanding the aperture in the study of security, we theorize security entanglement as a particularly important form of globality with its own internal dynamics and show how the entanglement framework allows us to rethink the post-1945 security environment and events within it. We then focus on three illustrative forms of security entanglement that have been underexplored in security studies: the global nature of the Cold War; dynamics of decolonization and its legacies; and the relationship between migration and security. We conclude by discussing the implications of security entanglement for future visions of world security.
Highlights
Security studies has historically been a largely state-centric discipline, there is an increased recognition of the need to move beyond methodological nationalist frameworks (Adamson 2016, 2018, 2020)
We focus on three illustrative forms of security entanglement that have been underexplored in security studies: the global nature of the Cold War; dynamics of decolonization and its legacies; and the relationship between migration and security
We focus on three forms of security entanglement that have been under-explored in the field of security studies: the global nature of the Cold War; dynamics of decolonization and its legacies; and the relationship between migration and security
Summary
Security studies has historically been a largely state-centric discipline, there is an increased recognition of the need to move beyond methodological nationalist frameworks (Adamson 2016, 2018, 2020). As we illustrate in the sections that follow, understandings and interpretations of many events and dynamics are deepened and, in some instances, altered, when viewed through the lens of security entanglement (as opposed to traditional national frameworks). As such, this piece joins a growing strand of scholarship that argues for expanding the aperture to a global scale in analyzing both historical events and contemporary relationships, with the objective of refining our knowledge of the past and better interpreting and responding to contemporary events and dynamics. We conclude by discussing the implications of security entanglement for future visions of world security
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