Foreign Policy Analysis and Securitization

Summary, in English

To what extent can securitization theory help us to engage with the puzzles and problems of foreign policy analysis (FPA)? And how can FPA scholarship contribute to the development of the assumptions of securitization? This chapter will probe these questions and attempt to demonstrate that these seemingly disparate research traditions indeed both complement and inform one another. Securitization theory has habitually been viewed as a theory of international relations (IR) rather than FPA. However, hot topics such as climate change, immigration, and epidemics increasingly become the core of both research fields. Just as the problem-driven and agency focus of FPA research goes hand in hand with the central tenets of securitization, securitization theory contributes to the development of FPA by problematizing the decision-making of different foreign policy problems, by using a different set of assumptions

• Author: Roxanna Sjöstedt
• Editor: Juliet Kaarbo; Cameron Thies
• Department/s: Department of Political Science
• Publishing year: 2024-02-01
• Language: English
• Pages: 172-188
• Publication/Series: The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198843061.013.10
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 9780198843061