CCCS Public Lecture: Towards Global Security?

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 07 August 2014

Time:

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Room:

UQ Art Museum

UQ Location:

James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)

URL:

http://cccs.uq.edu.au/mcdonald-lecture

Event category(s):

Full Description:: CCCS Public Lecture: Towards Global Security?

Presented by: Dr Matt McDonald

In international relations thought, security has traditionally been defined as the territorial preservation of the nation-state from (usually external) military threat. But such an understanding of security has been increasingly challenged on both normative and analytical grounds.

Dr McDonald will make a case for a cosmopolitan and genuinely global approach to security. He will outline what such an approach would look like in both theory and practice; ask whether such an approach is morally defensible in the context of particular forms of community and culturally-embedded values; and explore whether (and how) such an approach might find purchase in the practices and institutions of international security.