Shifting dangers in the shape of threats and risks : the discourse of Swedish security policy, 1979-2020 / Jonatan Stiglund by Series: Stockholm Studies in International Relations ; 2021:2Language: English
Publication details: Stockholm : Stockholm university, 2021
Dissertation note: Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2021.The dissertation constructs an analytical framework that makes it possible to identify these logics empirically. The analysis allows us not only to uncover the influence of risk and threat logics but also to see the wider implications of the ways in which they are represented and related to one another. In contrast to concrete and identifiable threats, a risk logic constructs security problems as spatially complex, without concrete form or a specific place from which emanate. Risks are also, by this definition, future-oriented and lack concrete form in the situation in which they are constructed. The dissertation shows that both security logics have had varying degrees of influence on Swedish security policy and analyzes three sets of implications that flow from how security issues are constructed: the constitution of security policy as a policy area, responsibility and accountability, and the power relationship between government and citizens.
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