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The field of critical security studies (CSS) emerged in the late 1980s as a self-declared emancipatory project in opposition to mainstream realism. The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in a period of seeming glasnost among security scholars who long had felt sidelined by overly militarized, strategic and state-centric approaches. During the past few decades a number of diverse strands of CSS have developed. Indeed, the field has become so varied that arguably its unity is based only by self-proclaimed criticism of “traditional” approaches to security.
The core contradiction at the heart of CSS was that of an emancipatory project which was to be led by the major powers and institutions tasked with maintaining (and expanding) the order of liberal market hegemony.(N. Hynek and D. Chandler 2013: 50)
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Silina, E. (2016). Being Critical About Security: What Critical Political Economy Says About Security and Identity. In: Cafruny, A., Talani, L., Pozo Martin, G. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy. Palgrave Handbooks in IPE. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50018-2_10
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