SECURITIZING TOOLS AND THEIR SOCIETAL EFFECTS: PERCEPTIONS OF RISKS AND THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY IN ROMANIA
Journal: EUROPOLITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
Year: 2018

This article investigates the acceptance of securitizing narratives by different professional and age-based audiences in Romania. Through analysing the results of a q-sort questionnaire created and administered by the National Institute for Intelligence Studies, the article argues that different audiences relate very diversely to narratives of risk. The article begins by outlining the development of the theory of securitization and its transition to include a focus on audience acceptance. Furthe