The morality of security : a theory of just securitization Rita Floyd

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"When is it permissible to move an issue out of normal politics and treat it as a security issue? How should the security measures be conducted? When and how should the securitization be reversed? Floyd offers answers to these questions by combining security studies' influential securitization theory with philosophy's long-standing just war tradition, creating a major new approach to the ethics of security: 'Just Securitization Theory'. Of interest to anyone concerned with ethics and security, Floyd's innovative approach enables scholars to normatively evaluate past and present securitizations, equips practitioners to make informed judgements on what they ought to do in relevant situations, and empowers the public to hold relevant actors accountable for how they view security"--

"Although critical security scholars are traditionally concerned with the negative effects of securitization, they are increasingly open to the suggestion that securitization can sometimes be right, or be put to good ends. Yet we do not have a systematic normative theory that theorizes the circumstances when the move out of normal politics is morally permissible, and what considerations ought to inform the choice of security measures used"--