title: Cult of irrelevance or broad church? Responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism in the academic study of security
abstract: Abstract While traditional and non-traditional issues of security are at the very top of the policy agenda, security studies has been subject to much criticism. These concerns have often been framed in terms of challenges to the field’s relevance. This paper seeks to further the debate on relevance in security studies. Specifically, the paper examines the field in three major dimensions of relevance: responsiveness, diversity, and intellectual pluralism. Unlike previous disciplinary investigatio
journal: European Political Science