Critical security studies, racism and eclecticism.

This forum is about race and racism in critical security studies, as well as the latter's reparative possibilities. Having witnessed critical security studies emerge as a multiracial challenge to traditional security studies in the 1990s, I set out here to briefly explore critical security studies in four parts. Distorting the origins of critical security studies One of the leading security scholars, [14]: 30), defines critical security studies as 'a sub-field within the academic discipline of international politics concerned with the pursuit of critical knowledge about security'. [Extracted from the article]