ABSTRACT
This volume has demonstrated the breadth and variety of issues and approaches to contemporary security studies. It is and has been a sub-discipline of IR that is and has been constantly contested, and one that repeatedly reinvents itself. Security studies is a sub-discipline that is both embedded within the main discipline of IR, and increasingly also a sub-field that is multidisciplinary, in the sense of being driven by the intellectual agendas of disciplines other than IR. It is also a sub-discipline that ranges in focus from detailed policy prescription for governments, to philosophical statements on the nature of ‘reality’.
