Transcription of 3. Securitization and Desecuritization
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On Security, by Ronnie D. Lipschutz3. Securitization and DesecuritizationOle W verDuring the mid-1980s, observers frequently noticed that the concept of security had been subjected tolittle reflection in comparison with how much and how strongly it had been used. Only a few years later,conceptual reflections on the concept of security have become so common that it is almost embarrassingto, once again, discuss or re-conceptualize security . Nonetheless, in this chapter I present one possibleperspective on security, and assess its implications in terms of four different security agendas.
I could begin by expressing a certain discontent with the "traditional progressive" or "established radical" ways of dealing with the concept and agenda of security. The traditional progressive approach is: 1) to accept two basic premises of the established discourse, first that security is a reality prior to language, is
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