The theory of learned security

I am presenting in this chapter the integrative theory that I have developed and named “the theory of learned security”. An integrative approach differs from an eclectic approach because the latter involves employing a variety of features taken from a range of theories without having any overarching concepts that link the disparate theories into a composite whole. I can best describe an eclectic therapist as reaching into her toolbox for the most appropriate tools that she believes are an optimum choice in order to help her client(s) at a particular time. In eclecticism, there is no coherent, underlying set of meta-theoretical assumptions and shared concepts that marry the disparate theories together. In contrast, any theoretical stance, whatever it may be, represents a particular ideological—if not political—position, even if it is not expressly stated (Selden et al., 2005, p. 21).