A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Illocutionary Logic and Strands of Securitisation – Applying the Theory of Securitisation to the Study of Non-Democratic Political Orders
Authors: Juha A. Vuori
Publisher: Sage
Publication year: 2008
Journal:European Journal of International Relations
Journal acronym: EJIR
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
First page : 65
Last page: 99
Number of pages: 35
ISSN: 1354-0661
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066107087767
Abstract
Convincing research programmes often use a variety of data from cases in different contexts; in order to reach a wider understanding, the models and hypothesis of securitization studies have to be applied to broad groups of cases. The research programme of securitization studies is formed around the leading idea of securitization being a social process achieved through speech acts. I argue that by explicating the concept of securitization through illocutionary logic, it can be utilized to study security politics in non-democratic contexts in addition to the favoured liberal democratic one, where the majority of empirical analysis has been conducted so far. In addition, I present
clarifications to the concepts of ‘audiences’ and ‘special politics’ used in the theory. The theoretical discussion is illustrated with examples from the Chinese political system.
Convincing research programmes often use a variety of data from cases in different contexts; in order to reach a wider understanding, the models and hypothesis of securitization studies have to be applied to broad groups of cases. The research programme of securitization studies is formed around the leading idea of securitization being a social process achieved through speech acts. I argue that by explicating the concept of securitization through illocutionary logic, it can be utilized to study security politics in non-democratic contexts in addition to the favoured liberal democratic one, where the majority of empirical analysis has been conducted so far. In addition, I present
clarifications to the concepts of ‘audiences’ and ‘special politics’ used in the theory. The theoretical discussion is illustrated with examples from the Chinese political system.
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