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Showing 1 to 20 of 326 for “"Security Studies"”.
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The securitisation of ethnic identities and the 1993 genocide in Burundi: an interpretative case study
… ethnic identities. By utilising an International Security Studies approach in combination with a Fanonian conception of colonial society, this dissertation provides an alternative interpretation as to why the genocide occurred. At heart of its analysis is the question of ‘how did ethnic identities …
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Identity makes the World go round: Social Constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis
… to foreign policy analysis and critical security studies.
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Vergleichende Securitization- und Außenpolitikforschung im US-amerikanischen und europäischen Kontext
… Sie bewegt sich damit auf dem Gebiet der Security Studies. Dabei geht die Arbeit von einem erweiterten Verständnis von Sicherheit aus, das über das traditionell militärische Sicherheitsverständnis hinausgeht. Bedrohungen können demzufolge aus verschiedensten Situationen hervorgehen – unter …
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Operationalising Uncertainty : The US Military and the New Spatiality of New Security.
… 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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Three Essays on Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction with Applications to Political Violence and International Security
… text and apply these techniques to questions in security studies. Most existing text analysis tools in political science classify or cluster documents, discarding the order of words. In contrast, the techniques I introduce take word order into account in order to extract pieces of information …
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Teorie dell’autorità e del potere nell’Islam sciita secondo l’opera di ʿAlī Fayyāḍ
… is to go further the usual approaches of Security studies that all too often prevail in this research field.
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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
… 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 Council for Refugee’s year one report of …
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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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Gendering NATO: Analysing the Construction and Implementation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's Gender Perspective
… with and attempting to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), a topic largely absent from international relations literature. Specifically, it offers an interrogation and theorisation of the development and implementation of NATO’s ‘gender perspective’ from …
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As fronteiras de Nord-Pas-de-Calais: um estudo de campo sobre a securitização da imigração em França
… 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 protect …
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Teach them to fish. Analyzing practices of security assistance in international peacekeeping training centers.
Security assistance has and continues to be the focus of considerable investment by international organizations in non-EU countries. Most debates on security assistance rely on the assumption that a peaceful endpoint can be reached if appropriate policies are implemented or if the right conditions …
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Pathogens as weapons : the international security implications of biological warfare
This dissertation assesses the international security implications of biological weapons and the strategic consequences of their proliferation. It examines the impact of biological weapons on four key areas of concern for international security: proliferation, deterrence, civil-military relations, …
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Mare Imperium: the Evolution of Freedom of the Seas Discourse in U.S. Foreign Policy
… 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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Control, Detention and Torture in the So-called Global War on Terror
… art and visual culture, international relations, security studies, and international law by adding significant new complexity to narratives obscured by state denial and simplified by stereotypical media analysis and representation, and filling absences of justice or accountability with original …
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The extent to which China's involvement in Africa contributes to the security-development nexus
The concepts of security and development have always existed, even before the end of the Cold War. However, it was the former United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali who introduced to the world, the notion of a ‘security-development nexus’. This notion was encouraged by the shift in …
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‘Over, under and through the walls’: The dynamics of public security, police-community relations and the limits of managerialism in crime control in Recife, Brazil
This dissertation contributes to Brazilian public security studies from the perspective of critical criminology. It examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in one Brazilian city: Recife. Between 1982 and 2007, Recife had …
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