CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Somogyi Julia |
|---|---|
| Title | Securitization And Foreign Policy: Justifying The Securitization Of Eu Development Aid |
| Summary | In recent years, with the emergence of failed and fragile states, and new wars, lines between development and security have become blurred and a security-development nexus emerged in global political discourse. While there is evidence of the security-development nexus becoming an influencing aspect of EU policy-making, arguments around why the nexus has been incorporated by the EU have varied. Moreover, there is a clear lack of research relating to these arguments. This thesis is aiming to reduce this gap in the existing literature by answering the research question “How does the EU justify the securitization of its foreign development aid?”. In answering this research question, this thesis is closely guided by the theory of securitization of the Copenhagen School, as well as by the framework for Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough (2001). Overall, 24 official policy documents published by the European Commission under DG INTPA and the EUTF are analysed. By conducting CDA on the selected texts, the aim is to retrieve observations that help understand securitization moves by the EU within a specific, most-likely case study, Nigeria. Prior to the analysis, the expectations that existential threats to referent objects will be identifiable within EU development aid policy, as well as that strategies by securitizing actors for achieving acceptance of their securitizing moves from target audiences will be observable were set. The analysis highlights three different referent objects and two existential threats, with referent objects being directly linked to existential threats. Moreover, two main strategies interpretable as strategies by the securitizing actor to achieve acceptance of securitizing moves by the audience were identified. Mainly actions being described as in line with the actions of other donor organisations and the government of Nigeria. As well as the availability of all documents analysed to the broad public. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/somogyi_julia.pdf |
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