Essays about: "security securitization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 160 essays containing the words security securitization.

  1. 1. Sweden's relationship to NATO - How the government legitimizes its foreign security policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Victoria Karlsson; [2024]
    Keywords : NATO; securitization; legitimization; non-alignment; NATO-membership; speech acts.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study how different political orientations in Swedish foreign security policy have been legitimized. After having pursued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment for 200 years, Sweden made a decision to apply for membership in the military alliance NATO. READ MORE

  3. 2. Securing the Arctic : An analysis of Sweden's construction of security in the Arctic (2020-2023)

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Lovisa Sand; [2024]
    Keywords : Arctic; securitization; Sweden; Arctic security;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the Arctic region is portrayed and constructed as a security matter within Swedish state discourses from 2020 to 2023. Focused on the escalating geopolitical significance and the transformative impact of climate change in the Arctic, the thesis scrutinizes Sweden's portrayal of security in the region. READ MORE

  4. 3. NATO or Not

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anton Näslund; [2024]
    Keywords : NATO; Securitization; Multiple Streams Framework; Security; Policy Process; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Using a framework for analyzing security policy consisting of a synthesis of the Multiple Streams Framework by Kingdon (2014) and Securitization theory as described by Balzacq (2010), this study aims to explain the process of Sweden’s national security policy between 2014 and 2022. Such an investigation has relevance particularly for studies of peace, security and policy processes, since it relates to the broader question of what conditions make military alignment possible or impossible. READ MORE

  5. 4. Beyond the Terrorist Label : How Five Palestinian CSOs Experience and Resist Terrorist Allegations

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Alma Michold; [2024]
    Keywords : Palestine; Shrinking civic space; Terrorist designation; Resistance; Ontological counter-securitization;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the terrorist designation issued by Israel against six Palestinian civil society organizations in 2021. The organizations are based in the West Bank and remain designated as terrorist organizations according to Israeli law, despite rejections and condemnations by the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and the United States (US). READ MORE

  6. 5. Addressing the Climate Change in Europe: A Security Threat, or a Risk? : A Qualitative Content Analysis upon the European Commission's Addressing of the Climate Change

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Özge Demirel; [2023]
    Keywords : Climate Change; Security Threat; Security Risk; European Commission; European Politics; European Union; Securitization; Discourse; Climate Policy;

    Abstract : Climate change not only corresponds to scientifically proven future implications, but also poses a politically relevant study of climate security analysis, affecting the study and practice of (international) politics in different ways. In the same vein, the EU as an international organization have been getting more involved in discussions of climate-related security risks, in which the European Commission (which represents the Union’s common interests) have been publishing a set of consecutive policy documents addressing the climate change since the early 2000’s. READ MORE