Why is there no securitisation theory in the Korean nuclear crisis?
- Authors
- Yoon, Seongwon
- Issue Date
- May-2019
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS
- Keywords
- Securitisation theory; securitisation dilemma; South Korea; North Korea; North Korea' s nuclear threat
- Citation
- PACIFIC REVIEW, v.32, no.3, pp.336 - 364
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- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- PACIFIC REVIEW
- Volume
- 32
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 336
- End Page
- 364
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/189730
- DOI
- 10.1080/09512748.2018.1476401
- ISSN
- 0951-2748
- Abstract
- Despite the fact that the Korean nuclear crisis is one of the most protracted security issues in the world, the research analysing the crisis from the perspective of securitisation theory is curiously absent. This article attempts to pin down some distinguishing features of South Korea's securitisation of the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, thereby investigating why one rarely sees the implications of securitisation theory in the way that the Copenhagen School theorists would suggest. Borrowing the key components of securitisation theory-existential threats, referent objects and extraordinary measures-this article suggests three elusive characteristics of the South Korean actors' speech acts as sources highlighting the dilemma. To make the article's arguments clearer, I hold Floyd's classification of securitisation theory, which separated the securitisation process into two different stages: securitising move and security practice. While acknowledging the importance of the differences between illocution and perlocution in a securitisation process, this article takes this logic one step further by suggesting the limits of the perlocutionary effect in making the securitisation process complete.
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