Week 1  (30 Jan) COURSE INTRODUCTION

 INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY STUDIES

Week 2 (13 Feb) SECURITIZATION THEORY 101

Read: Wæver, Ole. (1995): Securitization and Desecuritization. In Ronnie D. Lipschutz (ed.), On Security. New York: Columbia University Press.

Paper question: What does securitization theory do as a theory?

 INITIAL CRITICISMS

Read: Eriksson, Johan (1999): Observers or advocates? On the Political Role of Security Analysts. Cooperation and Conflict 34(3): 311-30.

Paper question: What kind of research is the theory of securitization intended for?

Week 3 (27 Feb) SECURITIZATION THEORY AND THE POLITICAL

Read: Gad, Ulrik Pram and Petersen, Karen Lund (2011) Concepts of Politics in Securitization Studies. Security Dialogue 42(4-5): 315-328.

Paper question: What kind of an understanding of the political and of politics does the theory of securitization entail?

 WORDS, IMAGES, AND BODIES: SECURITIZATION BEYOND WORDS

Read: Vuori, Juha A. (2010) A Timely Prophet? The Doomsday Clock as a Visualization of Securitization Moves with a Global Referent Object. Security Dialogue 41(3): 255-277.

N.B. The Wilkinson chapter in the course book is also relevant here.

Paper question: Is the theory of securitization limited to the study of speech because it is based on speech act theory?

Week 4 (20 Mar) SECURITY, EVENT, CONTEXT: WHAT KIND OF A THEORY IS SECURITIZATION THEORY

Read: Vuori, Juha A. (2008): Illocutionary Logic and Strands of Securitisation – Applying the Theory of Securitisation to the Study of Non-Democratic Political Orders. European Journal of International Relations 14(1): 65-99.

N.B.: Balzacq, Thierry (2011): A theory of securitization: origins, core assumptions, and variants. In Thierry Balzacq (ed.) Securitization theory: How security problems emerge and dissolve. London: Routledge. should also be read by this point.

Paper question: What is the relation of the theory of securitization to the (assumed) phenomenon of securitization? What does this entail for the study of securitization?

 ISSUES OF METHOD

Read: Balzacq, Thierry (2011): Enquiries into methods: a new framework for securitization analysis. In Thierry Balzacq (ed.) Securitization theory: How security problems emerge and dissolve. London: Routledge. AND Salter, Mark (2013): Research Design. In Mark B. Salter and Can E. Mutlu (eds.) Research Methods in Critical Security Studies, an Introduction. London: Routledge. AND an article or book chapter that applies the method you have selected.

Paper question: What method are you going to use in your essay? What kinds of opportunities and limits does this method set for studying securitization?

Week 5 (3 Apr) SEMINAR DAY WITH ESSAY PRESENTATIONS

Read: ESSAYS

Week 6 (10 Apr) EXAM