This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to engage in a dialogue on key developments in the study of security.

Introduction: Transformations of Security and Security Studies, Gabi Schlag, Julian Junk and Christopher Daase PART I: Paradigmatic Approaches to Security 1. Realism: Not Expanding, But Still Evolving, Charles L. Glaser 2. Is the Crisis of Security Institutions a Crisis of Institutional Theory?, Caroline Fehl 3. Is there Life Beyond Language? Discourses of Security, K.M. Fierke 4. On Paradox and Pathologies: A Cultural Approach to Security, Christopher Daase 5. An Ethics of Security, J. Peter Burgess PART II: Subjects of Security 6. Power Politics Revisited: Are Realist Theories Really at Odds with the New Security Threats?, Carlo Masala 7. Democratic Distinctiveness and the New Security Agenda, Anna Geis, Wolfgang Wagner 8. Securing the Environment: From Defense to Resilience, Chris Methmann and Angela Oels 9. Financial Security, Nina Boy PART III: Methodologies of Studying Security 10. Imaging Security: A Visual Methodology for Security Studies, Gabi Schlag 11. Global, State, and Idividual Security in Quantitative Conflict Research, Håvard Hegre, Idunn Kristiansen 12. Combining Methods: Connections and Zooms in Analysing Hybrids, Julian Junk and Valentin Rauer 13. A Dialogue on the Identity and Diversity of Security Studies: A Conclusion of the Volume, Julian Junk, Gabi Schlag and Christopher Daase