Desafíos (Apr 2010)
Hasta dónde llega la seguridad: una lectura crítica de Krasuse y Williams
Abstract
This article analyses, from a critical perspective, the production of two contemporary authors regarding some topics in the field of security as a concept. In the first place, it explores their central thesis about the necessity of enhancing the area of the studies on the subject, including different levels to that of national security, and going wider towards new conceptions that can articulate different sorts of aspects, such as the economical and the environmental ones. Then, it analyses the interpretations that both authors have on the notion of security within the neorealism. And having showed the merits of the texts, the article appoints some objections to the use of the featured expression critical studies and its relation with the Critical Theory in the Social Sciences, and also to the lack of allusions to the treatment of security in the third world, and the eventual confusions between the Critical Theory, the School of Copenhagen and the Constructivism. Finally, it is shown the proper analysis made by Krause regarding the concept of Human Security —particularly about its evolution and its nature—, and its implications on the theory and practice of security in the contemporary world.
