The critical security approaches, on the other hand, aim to widen the concept of security through the issue linkage and bringing into discussion new types of threats, actors, and referent objects. The critical security approaches hold that threats and referent objects are socially-constructed. The critical ISS has developed over the past two decades with new debates on broadening and deepening the scope of security and its referent objects. It adopts diverse sets of theories and some form of post-positivist approach of security that shifts the ontological foundations of understanding of security towards on an emphasis on processes of construction, ideas, and identities. Critical approaches claim the logic of appropriateness in relation to norms and expectations, the logic of exceptionalism in securitization theory, the logic of practicality, the dynamics of discourse, or the potential paths towards security as emancipation. Therefore, the correct option is A.