This student essay aims to illustrate how hegemonic masculinity is constructed, maintained and legitimated through the practice of sexual violence.
The securitization process depends on the legitimacy of the securitizing actor and the acceptance of a threat by the intended audience.
Despite its operationalization as a National Action Plan, UNSCR 1325 has not yet sufficiently transformed women’s political representation in post-conflict Sierra Leone.
A focus on scientific ontological debates and an ambiguous theoretical conceptualisation of security prohibits the development of a consistent methodology in securitisation theory.
American exceptionalism drives the United States to believe that it is legitimate in all of its foreign policy actions and that its intentions are above reproach.
Recent US administrations, specifically under President Obama, continued to make private military and security companies part and parcel of their military efforts abroad.
By occupying perpetual states of contestation, the gender codes of femininity and masculinity have always been changing in relation to war.
The end of the Cold War has justified an overhaul in the traditional ontological and epistemological foundations of security studies.
The nexus between development and security is a timeworn institution with a Eurocentric history that proves exploitative for non-Western peoples.
Through speaking security, relevant actors enhanced the threat posed by migration, minorities, and terrorism.
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