Herat School of Security-II

Herat School of Security-II (HSS-II) 20-21 June 2019-Kabul, Afghanistan The discipline of Security Studies has been challenged both in terms of its agenda and level of analysis. Traditional Security Studies is characterized by state-centrism and materialism. Critical approaches to security studies have challenged the narrowness of the military and state-centric nature of security studies and redefined its agenda. Of these critiques were widening and...

Herat School of Security-I

Herat School of Security-I (HSS-I)18-19 November 2015-Kabul, AfghanistanThe end of the Cold War is considered as a turning point in security studies. Given significant changes in the International System, conventional approaches to studying and analyzing security issues including the security definition, its scope and level of analysis have witnessed widespread revision. The need for theoretical rethink and appropriate explanation for different aspects of the security conception in...