Commensurability of research methods in critical security studies

Mutlu, Can E.; Salter, Mark B.

doi:10.1080/21624887.2014.982392

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“…The study is designed as a discourse analysis on how integration and interoperability have been conceptualized in academic and military discourses. It leans upon the understanding of discourse analysis as the attempt to uncover how terms are given meaning within a communication or discussion, such as academic or professional debates (Mutlu & Salter, 2013). This not only entails study of the text or script but a consideration of context (Vollner, 2017).…”

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Integration is the New Black: Thoughts on Future Warfare in Academic and Military Discourses

Nisser

2022

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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Western military policy-formation and doctrine seems to be gravitating towards the idea of integration, reflected in concepts such as integrated campaigning, Integrated Operating Concept, and Multi-Domain Integration -among others. Despite the increasing use of the term within military doctrines and concept papers, there is little scholarly writing on what "integration" actually means. This study contributes to the small but growing body of research on joint operations with a novel analysis on how the term "integration," and its sister term "interoperability," are used within academic and military discourses. The results show that the terms are given different meanings both across and within discourses. It can be deduced that "integration" is generally understood as the merging of domains and services towards joint goals while "interoperability" is often presented as the ability to combine systems, forces, and planning across services. These findings are used to create a conceptual model which distinguishes between operability, interoperability, and integration as preconditions for the conduct of joint operations. The model is in turn useful for both scholars and practitioners when discussing or assessing capabilities to perform joint operations.

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Integration is the New Black: Thoughts on Future Warfare in Academic and Military Discourses

Nisser

2022

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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“…The somatic refers primarily to the subjugation of gendered bodies to the social. To understand how bodies are shaped by power relations and security practices in particular, we can apply discourse analysis, interviewing, participant observation, or archival research (Mutlu 2013a). …”

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Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

Daniel¹,

Turcsányi²,

Potjomkina³

et al. 2015

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A former security bureaucrat who has fled the world of security professionals in order to make sense of it, his research focuses on two interconnected issues -first, security discourses and everyday, as well as ceremonial practices of Central European security professionals under post-socialism; and second, urban marginality and the relationships of marginalization, ethno-racial stigmatization and class reproduction to the spread of frames of insecurity and practices of surveillance, repression, and punishment in Central Europe. Contact: lubomir.luptak@gmail.com. Diāna Potjomkina is a Research ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFrom the position of authors responsible for the editorial work on this volume, we would like to thank several people who commented on its drafts at various stages. Dagmar Rychnovská, Tomáš Karásek, and Marian Majer contributed with their valuable reflections and helped to improve the quality of individual chapters as well as the whole publication as such. We also appreciate the contribution of Mirka Pavlíková, who helped us with the finishing touches of the text and Matt Rees, who was responsible for the proofreading and copyediting. This publication is the second one in the Global Politics Special Series and in this regard we would like to thank Aleš Karmazin for his work on the previous publication in the Special Series, which paved the way for this one. Our thanks go also to the rest of editorial board of Global Politics. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the director of the International Institute of Political Science (IIPS) Prof. Vít Hloušek, and the head of the Department of the International Relations and European Studies at Masaryk University, Dr. Petr Suchý -as well as other staff at these institutions -for their long-standing support of Global Politics in general and the Special Series in particular. Especially the help of Lucie Mořkovská from the IIPS was essential and the books of Special Series would perhaps never been published without her.Obviously, the authors of this volume declare that they are wholly responsible for any possible inaccuracies or mistakes. Jan Daniel and Richard Turcsányi V VI SUMMARYThis book employs various theories of contemporary security studies to explore some of the most important and most common security issues in Central Europe at this time. Individual chapters of the book adhere mainly to European branches of critical and constructivist security studies, through which they look at some of the salient topics of Central European security politics.The distinction between internal and external security issues is employed throughout the book for analytical purposes. Under this framework, alliance building, security guarantees, "special relationships," the relational politics of identity, and relations with major powers -documented in the book on the case of Latvia's relations with United States -are examples of external security issues. Various pressing domestic security challenges, illustrated on the case of Hungarian far-right movements and the...

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“…Rather than viewing material objects primarily as referents around which competing discursive practices are mobilized, or as inert inputs and outputs of social systems governed primarily by the abstract force of capital (the meaning of ‘materialism’ in its Marxian sense), the material turn calls on us to think about how the physical and technical features of ‘things’ matter in and of themselves and can alter the ways in which society and politics function (DeLanda, 2008). Critical security studies has certainly not been left untouched by this shift, and diverse studies have sought to explore the implications of technologies, objects and infrastructures for security governance and politics (Amicelle et al, 2015; Anaïs, 2013; Mutlu, 2013). Nonetheless, there has also been ‘resistance’ to such approaches in the field (Ingram, 2019).…”

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The technopolitics of security: Agency, temporality, sovereignty

Müller

Richmond

2023

Security Dialogue

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This introduction to the special issue on ‘the technopolitics of security’ outlines key concepts and engages debates pertaining to the relationship between techno-materiality, security governance and struggles over sovereignty. ‘Technopolitics’ refers to the strategic practice of designing and using technologies to enact political goals, producing hybrid forms of power that combine cultural, institutional and technological dimensions. These technopolitical practices give rise to new forms of agency, producing effects unintended by their designers that may alter logics of political contestation and allow technologies to be reappropriated for different political purposes. To illustrate the distributed forms of agency and contingent encounters that the technopolitics approach evokes, the article develops three key aspects of technopolitics in its relationship to security governance: (1) an understanding of agency as distributed between human and non-human actors, but also asymmetric in that human intentionality plays an assembling role that is frequently overrun by the unintended effects; (2) the temporal horizons of imagination and action over which technopolitical interventions unfold, identifying the importance of logics of anticipation and eventization; and (3) the relationship between technopolitics and sovereignty, arguing that it encourages a decentred and materialized understanding of how claims to sovereignty are made and contested.

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Commensurability of research methods in critical security studies

Cited by 8 publications

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Integration is the New Black: Thoughts on Future Warfare in Academic and Military Discourses

Integration is the New Black: Thoughts on Future Warfare in Academic and Military Discourses

Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

The technopolitics of security: Agency, temporality, sovereignty

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