How does war become a legitimate undertaking? Re-engaging the post-structuralist foundation of securitization theory
Abstract How does war become a legitimate undertaking? This article challenges the interpretation of securitization as a narrow, linear and intentional event by re-engaging the post-structuralist roots of Copenhagen School securitization theory. To uncover the social process that makes war acceptable, the framework presented in this article is informed by securitization theory but foregrounds the web of meaning and representation between a myriad of actors in society to unearth the contents – and changes – in how war is articulated and carried out with public consent. This matters not only for the question of how war becomes a legitimate undertaking, but also for the very practices through which the war is fought: the emergency measures that are enabled in a discourse of existential threat. The article re-visits the Second Chechen War to illustrate how war is made logical and legitimate to leaders and their publics.
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
The Rising Powers and Peacebuilding project seeks to address an important question that has not yet been thoroughly researched: what are the new approaches that rising powers have taken to peacebuildi...
Great visions – broken illusions
What connects David Bowie and the Kola peninsula? NUPI senior researcher Elana Wilson Rowe has written a commentary in High North News.
How to Address Energy, Migration and Security Challenges in Europe
The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) together with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science (ISP PAN) have pleasure to invite you to this conference titled "Good Governance: how to address energy, migration and security challenges in Europe. Contribution from Poland and Norway", which will take place on 24 May 2016 in Brussels.
Protection of Civilians. From Principle to Practice (PoC)
Protection of Civilians: From Principle to Practice...
Peace in a world of threats
NUPI participates in the high-level thematic debate on UN, Peace and Security organized by the UN General Assembly 10-11 May 2016.
A different kind of peacebuilding?
NUPI has, together with five partners, investigated the rising powers’ approach to peacebuilding.
Mapping the Pacific ways
The South Pacific may be geographically isolated from many other parts of the world, but the political visibility of many Pacific micro-states is on the rise. Senior research fellow Marc Lanteigne analyzes Vanuatu in new book.
Корпоративная социальная ответственность (CSR) и арктическая нефтегазодобыча: оп...