Putting critique to work: Ethics in EU security research

Author(s): Matthias Leese, Kristoffer Lidén, Blagovesta Nikolova
Journal Title: Security Dialogue
Series: Special Issue on Doing and mediating critique
Pages: 1-18
Publication Year: 2018

This article explores the relationship between security, critique, and ethics by looking into the mandatory ethical coverage that EU security research projects must be subjected to. The authors discuss various ways in which applied ethics can help critical engagements with security in practical contexts. At the same time, they point to the challenges that applied ethics experiences in the middle of numerous cross-pressures (political ambitions, economic interests, technological rationales and the demands of security professionals) and discuss how the co-option of critique by power could possibly be avoided.

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