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academic journal that publishes scholarly articles which combine contemporary theoretical analysis with challenges to public policy across a wide-ranging field of security studies. The journal is owned by the Peace Research Institute Oslo which also hosts the editorial office. As of 1 October 2015
Mark B. Salter
Mark B. Salter is a full professor of political science at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Security Dialogue, an academic journal in the field of security studies. Salter received a Ph ...
Marek Thee
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in 1970 under the name ''Bulletin of Peace Proposals''. The aim was to systematically present, compare and discuss ideas, plans, and proposals for development, justice, and peace. The name of the journal was changed to ''Security Dialogue'' in September 1992. In the editorial introduction to the new journal title, then-editor Magne Barthe called for inter-regional dialogue on security issues, and for an internationalization of both scope and dissemination. In celebration of the journal's 50th anniversary in 2019, a longer piece o the journal's history was written by Michael Murphy.
Critical Approaches to Security in Europe
One of the most-cited articles published in ''Security Dialogue'' is the manifesto of the C.A.S.E. Collective, which outlined the recent history of critical security studies in Europe and suggested directions forward. The C.A.S.E. Collective article traced the development of the different "schools" of European critical security studies from a sociological perspective, and was written by a group of junior and senior scholars, including:
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Tara McCormack Tara McCormack is an academic and author. She is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester.
Education and career
McCormack graduated with a BA in politics from Queen Mary University of London, and an MSc in International ...
, Andrew Neal,
Ole Wæver Ole Wæver (born 17 September 1960) is a professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of international relations, and is one of the mai ...
, and Michael C. Williams. Then-editor
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recognized the controversy caused by the C.A.S.E. Collective approach, and ''Security Dialogue'' published a series of replies to the C.A.S.E. Collective article by
R. B. J. Walker
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,
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, Mark B. Salter, and
Christine Sylvester
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in response to the manifesto, as well as a response to the critics written again by the C.A.S.E. Collective.
"Is Securitization Theory Racist?" Controversy
In August 2019,
Alison Howell
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Melanie Richter-Montpetit
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Barry Buzan
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and
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, two central figures of the Copenhagen School. Buzan and Wæver replied to the article in May 2020, citing alleged errors in the article and arguing that the methodology and academic standards of Howell and Richter-Montpetit's article are "so profoundly and systematically flawed as to void the authors’ argument", and thought that "the lack of credible supporting evidence makes their charge libellous."
List of Editors
Since 1970, 49 volumes of ''Security Dialogue'' have been published by 6 editors, totalling 214 issues. Below is a summary of the tenures of the respective editors.
Abstracting and Indexing
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According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 2.692, ranking it 6th out of 86 journals in the category "International Relations".