Securitization and the Power of Threat Framing

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Securitization and the Power of Threat Framing
Original language description
Critical security scholars and securitization scholars in particular increasingly argue for a more context-sensitive approach to studying how security is constructed and performed in different social spheres. This article looks at the practice of threatconstruction in narrow and discursively-oriented environments, such as the United Nations Security Council, and discusses the prospects of conceptualizing and analysing this process empirically. Arguing that securitization in such a specific setting canbe understood as a highly context-dependent practice of negotiating the meaning of threats, the paper develops a new approach to studying this kind of securitization. It builds on the advancements of securitization theory and deploys certain tools from framing theory to develop a new framework for a situated discourse analysis of securitization. This framework is then applied in an analysis of how terrorism was securitized in the Security Council after the 9/11 attacks on the United Stat
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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