Securitization Theory How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
J. Peter Burgess, Thierry Balzacq
ISBN:
9780415556286
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-12-10
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
Thierry Balzacq for selection and editorial matter; individual contributors, their contributions 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction