POLS 2940 Lecture 27: Lecture 27

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Lecture 27: approaches to national security", globalization and security. Securitization copenhagen school (buzan, waever, dewilde, 1997) Securitization: when an issue is presented as a significant threat, requiring emergency measures and justifying actions outside the normal bounds of political procedure (issue is frame as it is a special kind of politics or above politics) Securitization means to present an issue as urgent and existential, should be dealt with decisively by top leaders prior to other issues: referent object: the object that is securitized. Securitization is an intersubjective process; security is socially constructed. Some actors placed in positions of power to define security, but this power is not absolute. Globalization and security: globalization and new geopolitics" (soft power, widening understandings of international security, conflict in the drcongo; child soldiers, growing tensions in the south and east china seas, 2015 nuclear agreement with iran.