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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Critical Security Studies"”.
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Identity makes the World go round: Social Constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis
… approaches to foreign policy analysis and critical security studies.
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The merits of the human security paradigm : a materialist account of peasant insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa
Contemporary food security concerns in sub-Saharan Africa centre on the pertinence of food versus fuel forms of production. As the global energy market enters into the postfossil-fuel epoch, the demand on land for commercial biofuel and feedstock production threatens the livelihood of sub-Saharan …
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Whose Safety Matters? Exaltation, Risky Refugees, and Canadian Safe Country Practices
… origin policy? I will be drawing on the work of Critical Race feminists and Critical Security Studies theorists to examine the concept of safety, systems of domination, and the parameters of national belonging. I will be performing a discourses analysis of the government’s and the Canadian …
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Operationalising Uncertainty : The US Military and the New Spatiality of New Security.
This thesis intersects the literatures of critical security studies and material semiotics to explore the operation of the US military, and through it, the operation of contemporary security agendas. Based around fieldwork conducted with 1st Cavalry (US Army) after its deployment in Operation Iraqi …
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The security imaginaries of an unarmed people: popular and elite security discourses in Iceland
This dissertation analyzes public and elite security discourses in Iceland, drawing on focus group interviews and political debates to develop an understanding of what serves as the foundation of security and insecurity at the societal, environmental, and political levels. The thesis uses discourse …
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A critical evaluation of the securitisation process of EU-Russia energy relations: actors, audiences, and consequences
… energy trade is seen as part of national security for both Russia and the European Union (EU). The central question of this study: is how EU-Russia energy relations have become highly securitised? This thesis approaches this problem from the perspective of a critical reading of …
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As fronteiras de Nord-Pas-de-Calais: um estudo de campo sobre a securitização da imigração em França
… theoretical current comes from the school of critical security studies, and has as central concepts security threat, borders and boundaries. The securitization observes that immigration is conceptualized as a source of insecurity for the political community, where the boundaries are erected to …
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Mare Imperium: the Evolution of Freedom of the Seas Discourse in U.S. Foreign Policy
… it, will make a substantive contribution to the critical strategic studies literature, in conjunction with the wider critical security studies literature, by showing that American political-military strategy in the South China Sea can and should be reconceptualized.
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The development-security nexus and security sector reform
… investigates the link between development and security - the ‘development-security nexus’- which emerged during the 1990s, facilitated by the formulation of human development and human security. It examines how this development-security nexus has evolved over time and has influenced the …
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Navigating gods and monsters: the production of safe insecure spatialities in the deterrence of risk at sea
… contributes the conceptualisation of ‘safe’ insecurity to existing literatures in critical Security Studies. To achieve this, this dissertation renders many concepts of International Relations that have developed to suit a terrestrial and solid understanding of the world as amphibious. This …
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(Re)creating the Jewish State : projects of (in)security and the disjuncture to price-tag violence
… of figures, including high-ranking Israeli security and military individuals, have warned of stark dangers which Price-Tag violence poses and classified it as acts of terror. The aim of this thesis is to trace a genealogy of Price-Tag violence and to critically ask why conflicts between the …
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Security and emancipation as resistance: how contesting and navigating narratives of women in Chechnya impacts NGO actions
… and are then positioned as a threat to Chechen security. Kadyrov’s petty sovereigns in the Republic work to limit this threat and maintain Kadyrov’s legitimacy by limiting women’s access to the public sphere. They are also seen to not uphold international rulings that go against Kadyrov’s …
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Asylum, Security, Neoliberalism and the Development of the Rwanda Plan
… costly Rwanda Plan? This thesis contributes to critical immigration literature by exploring theoretical perspectives from security and neoliberalism studies as originally emphasized in literature on the Australian Pacific Solution. To study the development of the Rwanda Plan, this thesis …
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Outsourcing Security and the Reconfiguration of State Power after the Arab Uprisings
… and reform schemes affecting the public security institutions, the market for force has experienced a notable expansion of the private security industry, initially in the private sector and increasingly through an expanding outsourcing process. Acknowledging the enduring centrality of the …