Rita Floyd

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A security guard uses a handheld thermometer to take the temperature of customers, wearing face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as they wait to enter a bar in Liverpool, UK on 2 October 2020. Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

Since the end of the Cold War, debates about security among both academics and policymakers have shifted away from traditional military or state security towards a broader conception of what security is – including, for example, ideas like ‘human security’.

More recently, there has been a widespread perception of a ‘return of great power competition’ and even renewed fears about great power war – in other words, a resurgence of traditional security debates that many hoped and believed were a thing of the past. At the same time, and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the concept of ‘security’ has also been increasingly applied to other areas like economic and health policies.…  Seguir leyendo »