ABSTRACT
Alongside the political visibility entailed in their securitisation, these threats have also slowly but steadily colonised the academic territory of security studies and captured the attention of scholars already in a consensus over the multiplication of dangers and threats in the post-Cold War world. The 'new7 threats have been variously linked with the disappearance of the communist enemy and the subsequent need to reinvent a multitude of other enemies and dangers, with the nation-states7 pathological reaction to globalisation by reasserting sovereignty through controlling cross-border movements, with an 'outdated7 imaginary of closed and homogenous communities, or with bureaucratic struggles.4
