This article is about the discipline within the field of international relations. For the study of security management, see security management studies.
The origin of the modern field of security studies has been traced to the period between World War I and World War II.[4]Quincy Wright's 1942 book, Study of War, was the culmination of a major collaborative research project dating back to 1926.[4] Scholars such as William T. R. Fox, Bernard Brodie, Harold Lasswell, Eugene Staley, Jacob Viner, and Vernon Van Dyke were involved in the project.[4] Security studies courses were introduced at Columbia University, Princeton, the University of North Carolina, Northwestern, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s.[4] Think tanks, such as the RAND Corporation, played an influential role in post-WWII security studies in the United States.[1] The field rapidly developed within international relations during the Cold War, examples from the era including the academic works of mid-20th century realist political scientists such as Thomas Schelling[5] and Henry Kissinger,[6] who focused primarily on nuclear deterrence.[citation needed]
Some scholars have called for expanding security studies to include topics such as economic security, environmental security and public health. Stephen Walt has argued against this expansion, saying it would undermine the field's intellectual coherence.[1] While the field is mostly contained within political science and public policy programs, it is increasingly common to take an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating knowledge from the fields of history, geography (stressing classical geopolitics), military sciences, and criminology.[citation needed]
The field of security studies is related to strategic studies and military science, both of which are frequently published in security studies journals.[7]
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Sources
Williams, Paul (2008). Security Studies: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-78281-4.
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