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Question
Which approach or perspective dominates post-Cold War Security Studies?
Options
An examination of the social processes by which groups of people construct something as a threat.
An agenda for peace; peacekeeping, peacemaking, and conflict prevention as priorities for avoiding military confrontations.
The re-addressing of past practice is a possible cause of insecurity.
The strategy for state security that is preoccupied with creating and maintaining a distribution of power in the system, is beneficial in terms of maintaining security and stability.
Solution
The re-addressing of past practice is a possible cause of insecurity.
Explanation:
The state has traditionally been the thing to be secured - the referent object of security studies - and has sought that security through military capability. However, after the Cold War, Security Studies resurfaced to challenge the fundamental assumptions that place the state at the centre of the subject. Post-Cold War Security Studies, on the other hand, seek to understand the past limitations of security theory and consider approaches that offer other alternative referent objects, such as energy resources or health. As a result, in addition to traditional ideas about military action and responses, post-Cold War Security Studies consider other means of achieving security.