Balzacq Thierry - Securitization theory: how security problems emerge and dissolve

Series Editor: J. Peter Burgess, PRIO, Oslo

The aim of this series is to gather state-of-the-art theoretical reflexion and empirical research into a core set of volumes that respond vigorously and dynamically to the new challenges to security scholarship.

The Geopolitics of American Insecurity

Terror, power and foreign policy

Edited by Franois Debrix and Mark J. Lacy

Security, Risk and the Biometric State

Governing borders and bodies

Benjamin Muller

Security and Global Governmentality

Globalization, governance and the state

Miguel de Larrinaga and Marc G. Doucet

Critical Perspectives on Human Security

Rethinking emancipation and power in international relations

Edited by David Chandler and Nik Hynek

Securitization Theory

How security problems emerge and dissolve

Edited by Thierry Balzacq

LONDON AND NEW YORK

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. He specializes on critical approaches to security, IR theories and the external dimensions of EU internal security. His articles have appeared, inter alia, in the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Security Dialogue, Review of International Studies, Cultures&Conflits. His most recent book is The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is currently working on two projects, one in French titled Thories de la scurit(Under contract with Presses de Sciences Po) and another provisionally titled The Nature and Origins of Security Ideas. Thierry Balzacq has taught at Aberystwyth, Cambridge, and Sciences Po Paris.

Christian Kaunert holds a PhD in International Politics and an MSc in European Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth, a BA (Hons) in European Business from Dublin City University, ESB Reutlingen and a BA (Hons) Open University. Dr Kaunert also lectured at the University of Wales Aberystwyth before joining Salford University in January 2007 as Lecturer. In 2004, he was a University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Research Fellow at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, where he examined the role of European Institutions in counter-terrorism and the broader security field. He will be a visiting research fellow at IBEI Barcelona, a joint research institute on international relations for the universities in Barcelona, Spain, from February until September 2010. He has studied, travelled and researched widely in Europe, Asia, and especially Latin America, including one six-month stay in Cali, Colombia, as well as further trips to China, Puerto Rico, and the United States. He is the author of several articles on European counter-terrorism, and wider homeland security matters. His articles have appeared in journals, such as