Securitization Revisited - Contemporary Applications and Insights

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become 'securitized' and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are.

List of contents

PART I: THEORETICAL INSIGHTS Introduction: Revisiting Securitization: The ‘Constructivist Turn’ in Security Studies 1. Assessing Securitization Theory: Theoretical Discussions and Empirical Developments 2. Regional Security Complex Theory: Reflections and Reformulations PART II: SECURITIZATION IN APPLICATION 3. Counter-Terrorism as a Technology of Securitization: Approaching the Moroccan Case 4. When Advocacy Securitizes: Non-state Actors and the Circulation of Narratives around Sexualized Violence in Conflict 5. Securitizing the Environment: Climate Change as First-Order Threat PART III: MECHANISMS OF DE-SECURITIZATION 6. Conflict Management Redux: Desecuritizing Intractable Conflicts 7. Beyond the Speech Act: Contact, Desecuritization, and Peacebuilding in Cyprus 8. The Role of Memory in the Desecuritization of Inter-Societal Conflicts Conclusion: Securitization, Revisited: Revealed Insights, Future Directions

About the author

Michael J. Butler is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Leir Luxembourg Program at Clark University. His publications include Deconstructing the Responsibility to Protect (Routledge, forthcoming), Selling a ‘Just’ War: Framing, Legitimacy, and U.S. Military Intervention (Palgrave, 2012), and International Conflict Management (Routledge, 2009).

Summary

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become ‘securitized’ and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J. Butler, Michael J. (Clark University Butler
• Assisted by: Michael J Butler (Editor), Michael J. Butler (Editor), Michael J. (Clark University Butler (Editor), Butler Michael J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367150372
• ISBN: 978-0-367-15037-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies; Routledge Critical Security Studies; Critical Security Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Politics & government, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution