Research Methods in Critical Security Studies, 2nd Edition

Preface to the 2nd edition

The impetus behind the first edition of Research Methods in Critical Security Studies was to provide students of this rapidly growing field the tools with which to build effective research designs. Critical security studies’ relative reluctance to engage in questions of methodology at the time came in part from a scepticism that criticality could successfully be wed to rigour and consciousness around method. The first iteration of the book was more successful than we could have imagined, both with established researchers and with students in the field. We have been heartened to see its uptake across the world as a teaching tool, and to see that there continues to be demand for approaches to research that are rigorous ...