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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Security discourse"”.
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A Study of the Evolution of Food Security Discourse, Mobilization, and Congressional Champions
Hunger and food insecurity are lingering public health problems, made more challenging by their evolving definitions, broad landscapes of interest groups, and complex political solutions. There is an important role for public health professionals and congressional committees in shaping the …
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Distorted Security Discourses. The ROK’s Securitisation of the Korean Nuclear Crisis, 2003–2013
South Korea’s security discourse on the nuclear threat posed by North Korea has been dichotomised by its position within the political spectrum between the progressives and conservatives. By drawing upon Securitisation Theory (ST), this study challenges the current security discourse in South …
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The geographical construction of national identity and state interests by a weak nation-state: the dynamic geopolitical codes and stable geopolitical visions of North Korea, 1948-2010
… a textual analysis of North Korea’s geopolitical discourses. Through the analysis of North Korea’s geopolitical visions and codes, this study provides a theoretical framework to explicate weak nation-states’ foreign and security policies beyond overly power-centered perspectives. In addition, this …
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Ask & tell, just don't perform: military discourses of (in)security and sexual identity.
… movement. For much of the past century, military discourses have aided in rhetorically constructing homosexual identities as pathological, deviant, and unfit to serve in the armed forces. A recent shift in this rhetoric from Department of Defense (DoD) officials, which contributed to a repeal of …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… that Nye and Smith's work exemplify western 'security' discourse which has a narrative structure that is super-power centric, and in particular U.S.- centric, as is now common in mainstream international relations journals. They tend to reproduce a particular discursive formation: that of a …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… that Nye and Smith's work exemplify western 'security' discourse which has a narrative structure that is super-power centric, and in particular U.S.- centric, as is now common in mainstream international relations journals. They tend to reproduce a particular discursive formation: that of a …
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The Politics of Border Walls in Hungary, Georgia and Israel
… centrality in framing border walls as a security measure. Yet, alternative geographic visions of nationhood in Hungary, Georgia and Israel define the fenced perimeters in these countries as the lines that divide the nation and its territory. These cases illustrate the contradiction …
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Between Hard and Soft Power: A Historical Analysis of U.S. Defense Diplomacy
… of the term “defense diplomacy” in national security discourse. The United States is no exception. Its abundant military assets and its global network of bases clearly demonstrate that it is the world’s leading practitioner of defense diplomacy. Yet the United States lacks a clear strategic …
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International politics and construction of climate security by small island developing states: Maldives and Samoa form broader meanings of security
… foreign policy narratives on climate change as a security concern. It recognises SIDS have played an important role in promoting comprehensive approaches to climate security at the United Nations Security Council debates - these included considering multi-sectoral climate-related threat factors …
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Securitisation of the response to rhinoceros poaching in South Africa
… and helped in proclaiming it a national security threat. Aimed to secure the survival of rhinoceros in South Africa and beyond, the securitisation was achieved through chain of practices that have been introduced over the last decade in the country. Applying sociological understanding of …
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The Terministic Filter of Security: Realism, Feminism and International Relations Theory
… of terministic filters to examine what the word security means to two different publics within the academic discipline of international relations. It studies the rhetoric feminist international relations theorists and contrasts their view security with that of realist and neo-realist …
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Securitization Theory and the Canadian Construction of Omar Khadr
While the provision of security and protection to its citizens is one way in which sovereign states have historically claimed legitimacy (Nyers, 2004: 204), critical security analysts point to security at the level of the individual and how governance of a nation’s security underscores the state’s …