ABSTRACT

Since the late twentieth century, research on security issues has become an area of increasing interest to scholars. The concept of security, the framing of security policies, the defining of threats, and the implementation of (in)securitization processes have been approached from a range of disciplines, going from International Relations (IR), psychology and law to history, sociology and criminology. Yet, regardless of its intrinsic quality, research on these issues did not end up with a satisfactory set of interpretations because it relied on single disciplinary analyses.