Securitization theory : how security problems emerge and dissolve / / edited by Thierry Balzacq

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 355/.0330001
• Soggetto topico: Security, International; National security
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BalzacqThierry
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Contributors; Preface; 1 A theory of securitization: Origins, core assumptions, and variants; 2 Enquiries into methods: A new framework for securitization analysis; Part I The rules of securitization; 3 Reconceptualizing the audience in securitization theory; 4 Securitization as a media frame: What happens when the media 'speak security'; 5 The limits of spoken words: From meta-narratives to experiences of security; 6 When securitization fails: The hard case of counter-terrorism programs ; Part II Securitization and de-securitization in practice7 Rethinking the securitization of the environment: Old beliefs, new insights; 8 Health issues and securitization: The construction of HIV/AIDS as a US national security threat; 9 Securitization, culture and power: Rogue states in US and German discourse; 10 Religion bites: Falungong, securitization/desecuritization in the People's Republic of China; 11 The continuing evolution of securitization theory; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-de
• Titolo autorizzato: Securitization theory
• ISBN: 1-135-24613-0; 1-135-24614-9; 1-282-88641-X; 9786612886416; 0-203-86850-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459059703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: PRIO new security studies.