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International Security: The Contemporary Agenda, 2nd editionRoland Dannreuther Cambridge, Polity Press, 2013, pp. 336
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 193-194
ISSN: 1744-9324
Macrosecuritization and the securitization dilemma in the Canadian Arctic
In: Critical studies on security, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 265-279
ISSN: 2162-4909
' Framing' the Copenhagen School: integrating the literature on threat construction
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 279-301
ISSN: 0305-8298
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The 'human' as referent object?: Humanitarianism as securitization
In: Security dialogue, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 3-20
ISSN: 1460-3640
Humanitarianism rivals security in its ability to legitimize emergency measures, and has also proven to be as ambiguous and open to abuse. In this article, humanitarianism is reconceptualized as a sector of securitization, like state and societal securitization, meaning that it is a structured field of practice that draws on existing discourses and institutions to enable the implementation of emergency measures. This reconceptualization contributes to the theory of securitization by expanding its applicability beyond states and societies to humans as referent objects, but also by challenging the Copenhagen School's conceptualization of normality/exceptionality at the domestic and international levels. Drawing on the humanitarian securitization of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the article demonstrates how the structured security field of humanitarianism privileges particular actors in speaking to human insecurity, and how the humanitarian discourse reifies and reinforces a monolithic form of human identity. The article draws attention to the process of representing developments as humanitarian emergencies and uses the framework of securitization to critically examine the discourses, practices and agents of humanitarianism.
Securing the Practical Turn in Constructivist Theory
In: International studies review, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 532-534
ISSN: 1468-2486
Back Home, Safe and Sound: The Public and Private Production of Insecurity1
In: International political sociology, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 160-177
ISSN: 1749-5687
International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy
In: International studies review, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 532-534
ISSN: 1521-9488
International order and the politics of disaster
"In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy. Based on empirical analysis of the three international 'disaster management regimes' (disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration) and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues that international disaster management and disaster diplomacy are not simply efforts to reduce the impact of disasters or to manage bilateral relations, but to reinforce key beliefs about the larger international order. Challenging the conventional understandings of disasters as natural, as an exogenous shock, or as an unintended and accidental outcome of the current order, this text shows how the ideological foundations of the current heterogenous international order produce recurrent disasters. International Order and the Politics of Disaster will be a vital source for undergraduate or graduate students interested in international responses to disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies, forced migration and displacement, as well as climate change and development"--
The securitization of humanitarian migration: digging moats and sinking boats
In: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics 74
The securitization of humanitarian migration: digging moats and sinking boats
In: Routledge advances in international relations and global politics, 74
Conspiracy Theories and Human Trafficking: Coercive Power, Normative Ambiguity and Epistemic Uncertainty
In: Journal of human trafficking, S. 1-18
ISSN: 2332-2713
Everyday nationalism and international hockey: contesting Canadian national identity
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 289-308
ISSN: 1469-8129
AbstractThis paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between international competition, national identity and commercial sport has made hockey an ambiguous and contested national symbol in Canada.
Impugning the Humanitarian Defence
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 353-373
ISSN: 1468-2435
Institutionalizing and Implementing the Disaster Relief Norm
In: Implementation and World Politics, S. 230-247