The Transformation of Political Issues into Security Matters

The Transformation of Political Issues into Security Matters

According to Monahan, the literature about critical security studies has been known of their shared analysis of the way in which political issues become security issues. This implies that the assumptions, analysis, practices and implications of political issues are produced and reproduced. However, in the recent years, making political issues to be security issues has been associated with a tendency to conceiving of security linked with violence, totalization and even logic of exclusion. This paper will discuss how something goes from being a regular political issue to a security issue. Furthermore, it will explore the role of fear in the process and what the move of making something into security issue becomes possible. Finally, the paper will detail the making something into a…