The Relationship Between Risk Analysis And security studies

Abstract

There had been little interaction between the risk analysis and security studies academic communities a few decades ago. But now, these two research areas fall under a different school of thought in international relations (IR), including security studies and sociology, economics, and the natural sciences for risk studies. The growing attention paid to major disasters, such as violence, global warming, etc., has provided security studies and risk analysis disciplines with a unifying factual subject and underlined the importance of a shared study objective. This paper's main topic of discussion is to explore how risk analysis is interlinked with security studies. The second part outlines the ideas of risk and what are the practical illustration from different perspectives. The third part demonstrates the historical background of risk in security studies. The paper’s final section addresses the role of risk in security studies and discusses the approaches that make risk a part of security studies.