About CAST
Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST) is a research project with a grant of 19 mill. Dkr. (app. 2,6 mill. Euro) over five years awarded to Prof. Ole Wæver by the University of Copenhagen's Excellence Programme.
The interdisciplinary academic project aims at exploring, comparing and refining the methods, concepts and principles, different disciplines use in assessing kinds of threats, dangers and risks. CAST's research is anchored in and contributes to the further development of the 'Copenhagen School' within security studies.
CAST's official opening took place 21 October 2008. For further information on CAST, please download this leaflet.
Teaching
Current courses
During the spring term 2012 no CAST courses are available.
Previous courses
The Decentralization of Security Policy
CAST researchers Karen Lund Petersen (coordinator), Vibeke Schou Tjalve and Ole Wæver, fall 2011. For the course syllabus click here (only available in Danish).
Securitization Theory - The Copenhagen School and its Critics
CAST Director Ole Wæver, spring 2011, Department of Political Science.
The Anthropology of Security
Steering Committee Member Morten Axel Pedersen, spring 2011, Department of Anthropology.
See more courses here.
Recent publications
Gad, UP 2012 ' Concepts of Dialogue as Counterterrorism: Narrating the Self-Reform of the Muslim Other '. In: Critical Studies on Terrorism. E-pub ahead of print.
Kristensen, PM 2012 ' Dividing Discipline: Structures of Communication in International Relations ', International Studies Review vol. 14, p. 32-50.
Andersen, RS 2012 ' REMEDIATING #IRANELECTION ', Journalism Practice, iFirst Article, pp. 1-20.
Porsdam, H (ed) 2012, Civil Religion, Human Rights And International Relations. Connecting People Across Cultures and Traditions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub.
Ramussen, K & Birk, T 2012, ' Climate Change, Tipping Elements and Security '. In: HJS Fernando et al. (eds), National Security and Human Health Implications of Climate Change, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Enviroenmental Security, DOI 10.
Wæver, O 2011, ' Velkommen til flertallets verden - den religiøse ', Udenrigs , vol 66, no. 1, pp. 8-18.
Strandsbjerg, J , Schlæger, J & Gad, UP 2011, ' Introduktion: Tema nummer om 'Arktis: suveræniteter, styring, geopolitik ', Politik , vol 14, no. 1, pp. 3-4.
Gad, UP 2011, 'Muslims as a security problem in Danish integration discourse: Peace, welfare, culture ', Nordeuropa Forum, vol. 21, nr. 1, pp. 41-72.
Gad, UP & Petersen, KL, 'Concepts of politics in securitization studies', Security Dialogue August-October 2011 42: 315-328.
Hansen, L. 'The politics of securitization and the Muhammad cartoon crisis: A post-structuralist perspective' , Security Dialogue August-October 2011 42: 357-369.
Berling, TV. 'Science and securitization: Objectivation, the authority of the speaker and mobilization of scientific facts' , Security Dialogue August-October 2011 42: 385-397.
Tjalve, VS 'Designing (de)security: European exceptionalism, Atlantic republicanism and the ‘public sphere’' , Security Dialogue August-October 2011 42: 441-452.
Wæver, O 'Politics, security, theory ', Security Dialogue August-October 2011 42: 465-480.
Petersen, KL 2011 , Corporate Risk and National Security Redefined, Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.
Gad, UP et. al. 2011, ' EU's oversøiske lande og territorier: postkoloniale suverænitetsspil og Grønlands arktiske muligheder ' , Tidsskriftet Politik, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 15-24.
'Risk Analysis - a Field Within Security Studies?' European Journal of International Relations, first published on August 23, 2011.
