ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an alternative to the tarnished image of critical approaches. It underlines that continuing the questioning is important not because it brings out the negative' side of military markets. The chapter shows that critical perspectives can also be read in positive terms as directed at emancipation or the discovery of new possibilities, that the theoretical side of critical perspectives plays an important role in this endeavour and that even the constant pushing for more and different critique can be seen as a useful reminder that politics is a process in which things constantly change. It deals with the editors that it is extremely important to continue to critically investigate the outsourcing and privatisation of security, particularly from novel perspectives, such as through the lens of critical international political economy or post-colonialism'. The chapter makes an argument for why exactly it is important and for a specific way of understanding what critically investigating' means.
