Renaissance in Security Studies? Caveat Lector!

This article critiques Stephen Walt's survey of security studies, published last year in ISQ It identifies serious flaws in the essay's understanding of security studies—viewed from analytic, normative, and methodological perspectives—and, conversely, argues for a richer conceptual, broader interdisciplinary, theoretically more inclusive, and, not ironically, a more policy-relevant understanding of security studies than the survey presents.