Securitization Revisited: Contemporary Applications and Insights [Hardcover]

PART I: THEORETICAL INSIGHTS  Introduction: Revisiting Securitization: The Constructivist Turn in Security Studies  1. Assessing Securitization Theory: Theoretical Discussions and Empirical Developments  2. Regional Security Complex Theory: Reflections and Reformulations  PART II: SECURITIZATION IN APPLICATION  3. Counter-Terrorism as a Technology of Securitization: Approaching the Moroccan Case  4. When Advocacy Securitizes: Non-state Actors and the Circulation of Narratives around Sexualized Violence in Conflict  5. Securitizing the Environment: Climate Change as First-Order Threat  PART III: MECHANISMS OF DE-SECURITIZATION  6. Conflict Management Redux: Desecuritizing Intractable Conflicts  7. Beyond the Speech Act: Contact, Desecuritization, and Peacebuilding in Cyprus  8. The Role of Memory in the Desecuritization of Inter-Societal Conflicts  Conclusion: Securitization, Revisited: Revealed Insights, Future Directions

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become securitized and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are.

Michael J. Butler is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Leir Luxembourg Program at Clark University. His publications include Deconstructing the Responsibility to Protect (Routledge, forthcoming), Selling a Just War: Framing, Legitimacy, and U.S. Military Intervention (Palgrave, 2012), and International Conflict Management (Routledge, 2009).

This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become securitized and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are. A generation after the introduction of the concept of securitization to the security stlÃ,