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Progressive and Regressive Securitisation: Covid, Russian Aggression and the Ethics of Security.
- Source :
- Central European Journal of International & Security Studies; Jun2023, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p22-43, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper contributes to the debate about the normative assessment of securitisation in light of Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It develops the distinction of progressive and regressive securitisation. In doing so, it emphasises the processual, contextual and ambiguous nature of securitisation. I suggest that progressive securitisation is closely linked to the solidarisation, whereas regressive securitisation implies the pluralisation of international society. The two cases of Covid-19 and Russia illustrate that international order has increasingly been characterised by regressive securitisation and a pluralisation of international society, despite possible alternatives, such as a transnational response to the spread of Covid-19. They have thus contributed to the further demise of the post-Cold War liberal order, which despite its problems, has involved a re-orientation of security away from state territory and national identity as the core referent objects. I end with a plea to take the ethics of security more seriously again, and in particular to scrutinise the ways in which our own behaviour reinforces regressive securitisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- NATIONALISM
COVID-19 pandemic
RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1802548X
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Central European Journal of International & Security Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164695618
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.51870/PXRR4789