Security in Translation Securitization Theory and the Localization of Threat [Hardcover]

Security in Translation proposes an innovative way to capture the evolution, spread and local transformation of threat images in world affairs. Reworking traditional securitization theory, this book develops a coherent new framework for analysis that makes securitization theory applicable to empirical studies.PART I: THEORY 1. Securitization Theory and the Copenhagen School 2. A Securitization Theory Post-Copenhagen 3. Securitization as Translation PART II: CASE STUDIES 4. Aspects of the Organized Crime Imagery 5. The Securitization of Organised Crime in the USA 6. The Translation of Organized Crime into Organisierte Kriminalit?t 7. The Securitization of Rogue States Image in the USA 8. The (Failed) Translation of Rogue States into Schurkenstaaten PART III: IMPLICATIONS Conclusion

This book is the first to examine cross-culturalsecuritization, that is, the incremental processes of international spread anddomestic localization of threat discourse. & this books dual attempts toexamine the empirical phenomenon of the travel of threat discourse and to buildits theoretical claim are effective. To those engaged in securitizationstudies, International Relations, as well as German and American security affairs,this book will make a valuable read. (Wenge Chen, Discourse and Society, Vol.27 (1), January, 2016)

Holger Stritzel is Lecturer at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK.