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Canadian critical security studies as a Non-American social science: a rejoinder to de Larrinaga and Salter

In this rejoinder to de Larrinaga and Salter, it is argued that the characteristics that distinguish a Canadian Critical Security Studies school should be broadened to include the Canadian School’s primary focus upon American hegemony, and the institutional location of Canadian IR programs within political science departments resulting in their interest in many of those issue areas that de Larrinaga and Salter consider unique. This article agrees that there are key post-positivist epistemological assumptions that tie a Canadian critical school together, but that these are broader to most of the field of IR in Canada, and the resulting critical focus within Security Studies is merely a reflection of a wider gulf between American and non-American IR and the desire by Canadians to develop an understanding of security as a non-American social science.