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First, it is highly critical of seeing the state as a referent object and rather puts the emphasis on individual security. Moreover, its researchers think that states often create threats to individuals. Critical Security Studies implies “placing the experience of those men and women and communities for whom the present world order is a cause of insecurity rather than security at the center of the agenda”. Second, the Welsh School has its roots in the Gramscian and Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. That is where its normative approach and the perception of security as emancipation come from. Thus the third distinctive characteristic of the approach is its emphasis on emancipation which is understood as removing any barriers that prevent individuals from freedom. The Welsh School believes that if people are emancipated, what they freely choose to do is peaceful. Furthermore, the School is easily distinguishable from the other approaches due to its normative-political agenda. Last, they intensify the understanding of security by viewing it as a derivative concept of politics. The security is seen as a reflection of the nature of politics.