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-dependency of agency and context and
the structuring force of the dispositif. These assumptions are then
investigated through discourse analysis, process-tracing,
ethnographic research, and content analysis and discussed in
relation to extensive case studies.
This innovative new book will be of much interest to students of
securitisation and critical security studies, as well as IR theory
and sociology.
Thierry Balzacq is holder of the Tocqueville Chair on Security
Policies and Professor at the University of Namur. He is Research
Director at the University of Louvain and Associate Researcher at
the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po Paris.
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