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Watson, Scott. "Agents in Search of an Actor: Societal Security for the Palestinians and Kurds" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71279_index.html>

Watson, S. D. , 2005-03-05 "Agents in Search of an Actor: Societal Security for the Palestinians and Kurds" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71279_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Societal security has become a prominent concept in the field of security studies and has been used to challenge the supremacy of state security as the dominant paradigm in security studies. It has achieved this success because it addresses intrastate conflicts and accounts for the role of the state as a primary source of insecurity in many parts of the world. However, the concept remains problematic for scholars because it is vastly understudied and because it has yet to identify who defines and provides security for non-state societies. Those that use this concept rely on the problematic assumption that society is capable of enunciating security threats against it. This paper argues that security cannot be understood outside of the state concept for two reasons: 1) societies are incapable of implementing the extraordinary means necessary to counter potential threats and 2) ultimately the international community determines who speaks security on behalf of non-state societies. Examining two cases: the Palestinians and the Kurds, this paper argues that these societies have at various times had numerous claimants to the role of securitising actor. In the Palestinian case, the PLO eventually secured the role of securitising actor, while both the PKK and the KDP have been unsuccessful to fill this role for the Kurds. I argue that the differences in the outcomes of these cases have not been due to any discernable decision on the part of their respective societies, but rather that of the international community. As such, societal security fails as a concept distinct from state security and can best be understood as one sector of state security.

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