This volume examines the potential for ethical visions of security and what such visions might look like, and brings together emerging theoretical discussions on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies by some of the leading scholars in the field.

Introduction: Imagining Ethical Security Studies, Jonna Nyman and Anthony Burke Part I: Foundations of Ethical Security 1. Security: Critique, Analysis and Ethics, Vivienne Jabri 2. Whose Security? Ethics and the Referent, Matt McDonald 3. World Security: Toward a 'Local' Research Agenda, Ali Bilgiç 4. Posthuman Security/Ethics, Audra Mitchell Part II: Visions and Debate 5. The Promise of Theories of Just Securitization, Rita Floyd 6. Security, Emancipation and the Ethics of Vulnerability, João Nunes 7. The Promise and Dangers of Human Security, Annick Wibben 8. Feminist Care Ethics and Everyday Insecurities, Fiona Robinson 9. Pragmatism, Practice and the Value of Security, Jonna Nyman 10. The Ethical Sources of Security Cosmopolitanism, Anthony Burke 11. Ethics and Ontological Security, Christopher Browning 12. War, Ethics and the Individual, Helen Dexter 13. The Decolonial Option: Toward an Ethic of Self-Securing, Priya Chacko 14. Ethical Security Studies: Activism, Resistance and Security, Chris Rossdale Conclusion: Security as Ethics: An Orthogonal Rotation from Egoism to Compassion