About CAST
CAST is a new research project with a grant of 19 mill Dkr. over five years awarded to Prof. Ole Wæver by the University of Copenhagen's Excellence Programme.
The interdisciplinary academic project aims to explore, compare and refine the methods, concepts and principles, different disciplines use in assessing kinds of threats, dangers and risks. Research will be anchored in and contribute to the further development of 'the Copenhagen School' within security studies.
Official opening was 21st October 2008.
For further information download leaflet.
Teaching
The Decentralization of Security Policy
CAST researchers Karen Lund Petersen (coordinator), Vibeke Schou Tjalve and Ole Wæver are curently teaching the gradaute course "The Decentralization of Security Policy: new theories, new practices and new challenges" (Decentralisering af sikkerheds-politikken: nye teorier, nye praksisser og nye udfordringer) at the Department of Political Science.
For the course syllabus click here (In Danish)
Previously taught courses
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
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.
