Securitization of the Arctic: U.S. Securitizing Actors and Their Strategies

Mgr. Barbora Padrtová, Ph.D.

Doctoral thesis

Abstract:

Určitý problém se nestává bezpečnostní otázkou kvůli samotné existenci hrozby, ale proto, že daný aktér tento problém představuje jako existenční hrozbu. Tato práce identifikuje klíčové americké sekuritizační aktéry v Arktidě. Zároveň nabízí analýzu a typologii jejich jednotlivých sekuritizačních strategií.

Abstract:

Certain issue is not becoming a security matter because there is a real existential threat, but because the issue is presented by the specific actor as a threat through the process of securitization. The thesis identifies key U.S. securitizing actors in the Arctic. It further provides the analysis and typology of their securitization strategies.

Keywords

Arctic region, securitization, Copenhagen School, security, United States, securitizing actors, securitization strategy

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 21. 4. 2017

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 9. 6. 2017
• Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Kříž, Ph.D.
• Reader: Professor Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, PhD (Cantab), Professor Heininen Lassi, PhD

Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Doctoral programme / field:
International Territorial Studies (4-years) / International Relations