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Rita Floyd argues that there are always circumstances in which states and other actors have a moral duty to securitize - to use extraordinary emergency measures to deal with existential threats, whatever their source. This book will appeal to anyone interested in achieving a more peaceful and just world.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. When is securitization morally required? The case of must cause; 2. States and the obligation to securitize; 3. Non-state actors and the obligation to securitize; 4: Sub-systemic collective state actors and the obligation to securitize; 5. Systemic-actors and the obligation to securitize; Conclusion; Bibliography.
About the author
Rita Floyd is Associate Professor in Conflict and Security in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. This is her third monograph following on from Security and the Environment: Securitisation Theory and US Environmental Security Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization (Cambridge, 2019).
Summary
Rita Floyd argues that there are always circumstances in which states and other actors have a moral duty to securitize – to use extraordinary emergency measures to deal with existential threats, whatever their source. This book will appeal to anyone interested in achieving a more peaceful and just world.
Foreword
Examines the moral duty of different actors to rescue both themselves and others from existential threats using security measures.
