Security and the problem of context: a hermeneutical critique of securitisation theory.
How do we know when we are dealing with security issue? This is a cardinal question in Security Studies, and securitisation theory provides and authoritative yet incomplete answer, mainly because it rules out that the meaning of security can vary contextually. To overcome this limitation, we need a...
| Publicado en: | Review of International Studies Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 301 - 327 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2009
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