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).
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