What, in your view, is the most important type of security threat or category of security threats that has been largely overlooked by conventional scholarship? How would conventional scholars like David Baldwin respond to the demand that this type of threat is incorporated into future security studies?
The main security threat that, for a long time, was unnoticed is a disease. The emergence of traditional directions for security studies took place in the twentieth century. Two global wars, and the Cold War, during which the nuclear arms race took place, shifted attention to military power. States were...