Essays about: "Securitizing Actor"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Securitizing Actor.

1. 1. Beyond Conflict : NATO's Just Securitization of Russia

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

   Author : Signe Prip Bruun; [2023]
   Keywords : Threat perception; securitization; JST; social constructivism; international security; NATO-Russia relations; identity;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses the ethical implications of NATO securitizing Russia without being in direct warfare,seeking to contribute to the debate of the integration of ethics into IR. This thesis contributes to that argument by integrating ethical dimensions of normative character through Floyd's Just Security Theory (JST) within the framework of social constructivism to develop new theoretical insights. READ MORE

3. 2. Security or Security Issue of Tomorrow? Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems : A critical discourse analysis of securitization of LAWS in German political-institutional dabates

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

   Author : Ronja Schahira Kaya Metzger; [2021]
   Keywords : Lethal autonomous Weapons Systems; Securitization; Convention on Conventional Weapons; CCW; weapons control; Germany;

   Abstract : In this thesis, the role of Legal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) in the German institutional-political landscape is examined. The effort guiding the thesis is to uncover and understand how LAWS have been constructed in the German institutional-political discourse from 2017-2021. READ MORE

4. 3. Securitizing COVID-19 : A case study of negotiated securitization between securitizing actor & the public in Norway

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Nadja Friborg; [2021]
   Keywords : Securitization Theory; Audience Acceptance; COVID-19; Norway; Successful Securitization;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzed the securitization of COVID-19 in Norway as a negotiation of meaning between the public and Norway’s prime minister. By employing framing analysis and a sociological approach to securitization, this thesis breaks with the binary view of ‘audience acceptance’ in securitization theory’s original framework. READ MORE

5. 4. Climate Change, Securitization and Greta Thunberg

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Linn Isacson; [2020]
   Keywords : Climate change; securitization; Copenhagen School; Greta Thunberg discourse analysis; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis is a discourse analysis of Greta Thunberg’s rhetoric on climate change. Its aim is to describe how securitization of climate change are reflected. It is important to understand how security and threats are formulated in society today. READ MORE

6. 5. Motives behind securitization : -a study on the securitization of terrorism

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Anders Vallin; [2020]
   Keywords : Securitization; motive; referent object; terrorism; USA; EU; World Health Organization; WHO;

   Abstract : Since securitization processes are agued to be able to create excessive power to actors, there are arguments that claim that securitization is a negative process. By combining aspects of the original securitization theory with Juha Vuoir’s theory of illocutionary force, this thesis makes an attempt at finding what different actors claimed was threatened in their respective securitization of the issue terrorism. READ MORE