Essays about: "referent"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 43 essays containing the word referent.

  1. 16. Justifying Japan’s Securitized ODA

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Wichuta Teeratanabodee; [2020]
    Keywords : securitization of aid; Official Development Assistance; Japan’s ODA; bilateral aid; critical discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : While the global foreign aid trend has shifted closer to security, the Development Assistance Committee prohibits donor countries from giving aid for military purposes or the donor countries’ security interests. Many scholars observed that several projects of Japan’s Official Development Assistance are, to a large extent, military aid or driven by national interests. READ MORE

  3. 17. Important system updates needed! : Masculinised logics and gendered path dependence in the European Union’s cybercrime institutions

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Felicia Rhedin; [2020]
    Keywords : cybersecurity; cybercrime; European Union; EU; EC3; feminist institutionalism; path dependence; cyber violence; VAW; VAWG; cybersäkerhet; cyberbrottslighet; EU; feministisk institutionalism; stigberoende; cybervåld;

    Abstract : This thesis approaches the EU’s cybersecurity discourse from a feminist angle, using a theoretical perspective based on feminist institutionalism and path dependence. The aim is to explore what conceptual logics make it possible for the EU to conceptualise cybersecurity and -crime “problems” in a genderblind way. READ MORE

  4. 18. 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

  5. 19. The Road to (In)security: India’s Perception of Insecurity Towards the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Ludvig Landberg; [2019-09-30]
    Keywords : Infrastructure; Techno-Politics; Securitization; China-Pakistan Economic Corridor; South Asia;

    Abstract : Infrastructural techno-political regimes are growing all over the world. One such regime, the Chinese One Belt One Road project (OBOR) is planned to have transnational connections to over 65 countries, in Africa, Asia, and Europe. OBOR’s flagship project is the US$62 billion China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). READ MORE

  6. 20. The Securitization of Migration

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Güler Fatih; [2019]
    Keywords : Securitization Theory; European Migration Crisis; Hungary;

    Abstract : This study looks at the discursive threat constructions of political elites in Hungary during a time span corresponding to the European Migration Crisis. Securitization theory is used in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse the communicated threat perceptions that led to the extraordinary security measure of building fences. READ MORE