Thierry Balzacq

La sécurité est-elle mieux pensée par ceux qui la critiquent ? De Foucault à Butler, de Bourdieu à Bauman, de Horkheimer à Honneth, les intellectuels qui se sont intéressés à nos sociétés ont permis de prendre la mesure des défi s que pose la sécurité à la politique : qu’est-ce que la sécurité ? Pourquoi et comment certains problèmes deviennent-ils des enjeux de sécurité ? Quels sont les rapports entre la sécurité, la défense et le politique ? Comment analyser les pratiques que déclenche la sécurité ? Bousculant les distinctions classiques guerre-paix, interne-externe, police-militaire, risque-sécurité, Thierry Balzacq examine ce que la théorie critique, le constructivisme, le poststructuralisme et le féminisme ont apporté aux études de sécurité. Bâtie autour de cas empiriques, sa démonstration suit une même exigence : partir des fondements, d’abord ; monter en complexité, ensuite ; évaluer minutieusement le projet théorique et politique de chaque approche, enfi n. Une réfl exion que la poussée de nouveaux enjeux rend d’autant plus nécessaire : tensions fi nancières et économiques, fl ux migratoires, menaces environnementales, subversions informatiques, ruptures sociales, déviances religieuses, pandémies globales...

Les approches critiques

Théories de la sécurité

Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Victor Mauer

Focusing on contemporary challenges, this major new Handbook offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past twenty years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. It now encompasses issues ranging from pandemics and environmental degradation to more traditional concerns about direct violence, such as those posed by international terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. A comprehensive volume, comprising articles by both established and up-and-coming scholars, the Handbook of Security Studies identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. This Handbook is a benchmark publication with major importance both for current research and the future of the field. It will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations.

The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints.

The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy

Sergio Carrera

What level of policy convergence has been achieved by EU member states on immigration, borders and asylum? Although this question may sound rather theoretical, in practice it has profound consequences on the everyday life of individuals and the very nature of the EU. Common action in this field is exacerbated by the significant obstacles that negatively impact the quality of policies and the success of their implementation. Together with the tense EU struggle between the intergovernmental and community method of governing, these factors are detrimental to an EU-wide policy for promoting freedom, justice and stability in an enlarging Union. In response, authors Thierry Balzacq and Sergio Carrera undertake a critical analysis of the most recent policy developments in this politically sensitive domain. They investigate persistent barriers to harmonisation and suggest how the EU may achieve policy optimalisation. Their work progressively develops a set of recommendations, aimed at overcoming current vulnerabilities in policy approximation and achieving the most appropriate action to ensure equal treatment and social cohesion in the EU.

Trends and Vulnerabilities in EU Policy

Migration, Borders and Asylum

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices within a coherent framework. To do so, it organizes securitization around three core assumptions which make the theory applicable to empirical studies: the centrality of audience, the co-dependency of agency and context and the structuring force of the dispositif. These assumptions are then investigated through discourse analysis, process-tracing, ethnographic research, and content analysis and discussed in relation to extensive case studies. This innovative new book will be of much interest to students of securitisation and critical security studies, as well as IR theory and sociology. Thierry Balzacq is holder of the Tocqueville Chair on Security Policies and Professor at the University of Namur. He is Research Director at the University of Louvain and Associate Researcher at the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po Paris.

How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve

Securitization Theory

Understanding Securitisation Theory

Ronald R. Krebs

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Thierry Balzacq

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