CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Zarb, Frank Restall |
|---|---|
| Title | The Dynamics of Securitization in the Weak State: Competing Discourses in Mexico's Hot Land |
| Summary | In the Tierra Caliente region of Mexican state of Michoacan a bloody war between vigilante groups, drug cartels and government forces has gone on unabated for years. This conflict springs from a fundamental issue within the state, its weakness. The inability of the state to establish rule of law over all of its domain has led to a variety of actors rising and attempting to establish order in their own way. In order to understand the dynamics of this case study and others like it, can the Copenhagen School approach and the theory of securitization be used? Often criticized for being Eurocentric and state centric, application of their framework to a weak state context has implications for the theory itself. While many of its components such as the discursive establishment of security and the extraordinary measures can accommodate a new context, underlying assumptions in the theory threaten to limit its use. Therefore, new variables that question assumptions of legitimacy must be incorporated. The product, is a reworked and new understanding of weak state security dynamics and bottom up securitization. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/zarb_frank.pdf |
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