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This 3 page paper looks at the Welsh School of critical security studies, led by Booth, outlines the ideas of security and emancipation associated with this approach and considers the way that the ideas may be critiques from a realist and a Marxist approach. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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and Richard Wyn Jones. The origins of the ideas that form the foundation of this school come from ideas from Kant and MARX through to Adorno, Horkheimer and Habarmas from
the Frankfurt School (Booth, 2005). The key element to this school of though is the need to redefine security as the emancipation of communities and individuals from structural constraints. Booth
(1991, p319) published a seminal article; Security and Emancipation, within which it was argued there needed to be a "holistic and non statist" approach towards security issues where there is
threat and force are not emphasised. Booth (1991, p319) argues that people, in groups or as individuals, need to be freed from constraints that prevent them from undertaking actions they
would otherwise choose to do, war, and the threat of are some of these constraints along with other social problems such as poor education, poverty and political oppression. Booth
further goes on to state "the concept of emancipation shapes strategies and tactics of resistance, offers a theory of progress for society and gives politics of hope for a common
humanity" (2005, p181). There is a high level of alignment with the ideas of Tickner (1992, p127), and the idea of a where there is the argument for the need
to eliminate unjust social relationship, including gender relations and needs to be seen in the context of multiple insecurities, which include ecological insecurities, structural violence and poverty and the way
these need to be dealt with in the reformulation of international relations need to be (Tickner, 1992, p128). Booth (2005, p263) also draws on Ghandi when determining that
security needs to be a means to emancipation, however, it is argued by Jones that even where there new emancipated order is brought into being there will always be room
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