Understanding Securitisation Theory

Author : Thierry Balzacq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135246143

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Understanding Securitisation Theory by Thierry Balzacq Pdf

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices within a coherent framework. To do so, it organizes securitization around three core assumptions which make the theory applicable to empirical studies: the centrality of audience, the co-dependency of agency and context and the structuring force of the dispositif. These assumptions are then investigated through discourse analysis, process-tracing, ethnographic research, and content analysis and discussed in relation to extensive case studies. This innovative new book will be of much interest to students of securitisation and critical security studies, as well as IR theory and sociology. Thierry Balzacq is holder of the Tocqueville Chair on Security Policies and Professor at the University of Namur. He is Research Director at the University of Louvain and Associate Researcher at the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po Paris.

Author : Thierry Balzacq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135246136

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Securitization Theory by Thierry Balzacq Pdf

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices within a coherent framework. To do so, it organizes securitization around three core assumptions which make the theory applicable to empirical studies: the centrality of audience, the co-dependency of agency and context and the structuring force of the dispositif. These assumptions are then investigated through discourse analysis, process-tracing, ethnographic research, and content analysis and discussed in relation to extensive case studies. This innovative new book will be of much interest to students of securitisation and critical security studies, as well as IR theory and sociology. Thierry Balzacq is holder of the Tocqueville Chair on Security Policies and Professor at the University of Namur. He is Research Director at the University of Louvain and Associate Researcher at the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po Paris.

Author : Monika Barthwal-Datta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415616317

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Understanding Security Practices in South Asia by Monika Barthwal-Datta Pdf

This book aims to explore the ways in which non-state actors (NSAs) in South Asia ' media actors, epistemic communities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society groups and others ' are involved in securitising non-traditional security challenges in the region at the domestic and regional levels.

Author : Rita Floyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108493895

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The Morality of Security by Rita Floyd Pdf

Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

Author : Antonia Does
Publisher : Graduate Institute Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782940503353

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The Construction of the Maras by Antonia Does Pdf

High levels of crime and violence in Central America’s northern triangle are a major preoccupation of politicians, policy-makers and citizens. Public authorities in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have sought repressive measures to increase public safety and to contain such violence, for which youth gangs (maras) are principally held responsible. Substantiated by interviews with key stakeholders in Geneva, Switzerland, this desk review offers a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and the intended effects behind the suppressive strategies of the respective governments. Viewing the gang phenomenon through the lens of securitization theory allows for a new understanding of how the maras are dealt with. This paper also traces how the concerned states have shaped a certain construction of these gangs and reveals a blurred line between the political and the security sectors. The analysis finds that interests other than combatting a security threat, as well as the particular historical and societal contexts of the three countries, decisively influence how the maras issue is addressed.

Author : Simon Mabon,Saloni Kapur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429852282

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Securitisation in the Non-West by Simon Mabon,Saloni Kapur Pdf

The concept of securitisation has gained increasing prominence in the past decade. Initially developed in Copenhagen, the term has been used to describe the broadening of the security agenda and the framing of particular issues as existential threats across the world. In spite of this prominence, very little work has been undertaken that questions the extent to which the concept can be applied beyond the Western world. This volume engages with these questions, providing a theoretical overview of issues with using the concept beyond the West, along with empirical papers looking at its use in a number of different contexts. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1280662735

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Understanding Security Practices in South Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice Massari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030711436

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Visual Securitization by Alice Massari Pdf

This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream media and political accounts that have depicted refugees in terms of threats. Secondly, and more consistently, through a representation of Syrian displaced people that, despite the undeniable innovative aesthetic patterns focusing on dignity and empowerment, continue to reinforce a visual narrative around refugees in terms of victimhood and passivity. The reproduction of a securitized account takes also place through the dialectic between what is made visible in the pictures and what is not. At the same time the book identifies visual glimmers and minor displacements in the humanitarian discourse that have the potentiality to produce alternative discourses on refugees and displacement beyond the mainstream securitized ones. By showing how relief organizations’ visual representation contributes to the securitization of the refugee issue, this book provides a great resource to students and academics in migration, visuality, humanitarianism and securitization, as well as social scientists and policy-makers.

Author : Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver,Jaap de Wilde
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1555877842

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Security by Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver,Jaap de Wilde Pdf

Sets out a comprehensive framework of analysis for security studies, examining the distinctive character and dynamics of security in five sectors: military, political, economic, environmental, and societal. It rejects traditionalists' case for restricting security in one sector, arguing that security is a particular type of politics applicable to a wide range of issues, and offers a constructivist operational method for distinguishing the process of securitization from that of politicization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Philippe Bourbeau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136814679

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The Securitization of Migration by Philippe Bourbeau Pdf

This book examines the process integrating international migration into security frameworks that emphasize policing and defence in Canada and France. It also describes how the concepts of power underlying security frameworks affect the treatment of migrants and immigrants. This book is one of the first to systematically and comparatively examine the role of political agents, media agents, and contextual factors in the process of securitizing migration.

Author : Marc Schuilenburg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479876594

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The Securitization of Society by Marc Schuilenburg Pdf

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role. In The Securitization of Society, Marc Schuilenburg establishes a new critical perspective for examining the dynamic nature of security and its governance. Rooted in the works of the French philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Gabriel Tarde, this book explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes that have impacted security in Western society from the 19th century to the present. By analyzing the new hybrid of public-private security, this volume provides deep insight into the processes of securitization and modern risk management for the police and judicial authorities as well as other emerging parties. Schuilenburg draws upon four case studies of increased securitization in Europe – monitoring marijuana cultivation, urban intervention teams, road transport crime, and the collective shop ban – in order to raise important questions about citizenship, social order, and the law within this expanding new paradigm. An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to criminological theory that incorporates philosophy, sociology, and political science, The Securitization of Society reveals how security is understood and enacted in urban environments today.

Author : Thomas Diez,Franziskus von Lucke,Zehra Wellmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317353058

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The Securitisation of Climate Change by Thomas Diez,Franziskus von Lucke,Zehra Wellmann Pdf

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It thereby clarifies the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security, risk and politics. Whereas securitisation studies have traditionally focused on either a single country case study or a global overview, consequently failing to reconstruct detailed securitisation dynamics, this is the first book to provide a systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses in four countries and thus closes an empirical gap in the present literature. In addition, this comparative framework allows the drawing of conclusions about the conditions for and consequences of successful securitisation based on empirical and comparative analysis rather than theoretical debate only. This book will of interest to students of climate change, environmental studies, critical security, global governance, and IR in general.

Author : H. Stritzel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137307576

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Security in Translation by H. Stritzel Pdf

Security in Translation proposes an innovative way to capture the evolution, spread and local transformation of threat images in world affairs. Reworking traditional securitization theory, this book develops a coherent new framework for analysis that makes securitization theory applicable to empirical studies.

Author : Kathrin Lenz-Raymann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783839429044

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Securitization of Islam: A Vicious Circle by Kathrin Lenz-Raymann Pdf

Diverse Islamic groups have triggered a »revival of Islam« in Central Asia in the last decades. As a result, there has been a general securitization of Islam by the governments: not only do they combat the terrorist Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan but also outlaw popular groups such as the Gülen movement. However, strong repression of religion might lead to radicalization. Kathrin Lenz-Raymann tests this hypothesis with an agent-based computer simulation and enriches her study with interviews with international experts, leaders of political Islam and representatives of folk Islam. She concludes that ensuring religious rights is essential for national security.

Author : Karin Svedberg Helgesson,Ulrika Mörth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136467967

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Securitization, Accountability and Risk Management by Karin Svedberg Helgesson,Ulrika Mörth Pdf

This edited volume examines the reconstitution of the public security domain since the 9/11 attacks, focusing on the banking sector and anti-money laundering (AML) activity in particular. Since the inception of the ‘Financial Action Taskforce’ (FATF) in 1989, AML has been viewed as a global problem. This text argues that the securitization of the financial sector as a result of AML has entailed the emergence of a new public security domain, which transcends the classic public-private divide. The analysis in the volume is multidisciplinary and combines concepts and theories from the literature on securitization, the public-private divide, and business/management. The authors argue that the state is under transformation and that the developments in the security field are part of an ongoing renegotiation of the relationship between the state and the business sector. Securitization, Accountability and Risk Management therefore contributes to a deeper understanding of how the power relationships have changed between the public and the private sectors after 9/11. This interdisciplinary book will be of much interest to students of critical security, risk management, business studies, critical legal studies and IR in general.