The Welsh School also known as emancipatory realism is a school within the discipline of security studies

Security Studies

This article refers to the discipline within the field of International Relations. For the study of security management see security management studiesSecurity Studies is an academic sub-field of the wider discipline of International Relations...

. It is a critical approach that aims to link security to critical theory and which relies up insights from the Frankfurt School and Gramscian thinking for its framework. Key academics considered part of the Welsh School include Ken Booth and Richard Wyn Jones

Richard Wyn Jones

Richard Wyn Jones is a Welsh academic at Cardiff University. Within academia he is considered to belong to the Welsh School of security studies.-References:...

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See also

• Critical Security Studies
  Critical Security Studies
  Critical Security Studies is an academic discipline within security studies which rejects mainstream approaches to security-Definition:Some use the term critical security studies to refer to all approaches that are critical of mainstream/orthodox realist approaches. Others see Critical Security...
  
  
• Copenhagen School (international relations)
• Paris School (Security Studies)
  Paris School (Security Studies)
  The Paris School is a school within the academic discipline security studies. The academic journal Cultures et Conflits is particularly associated with the school as is the academic Didier Bigo...