International Security Studies

Hough, Peter; Moran, Andrew E.; Pilbeam, Bruce; Stokes, Wendy

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“…Securitisation theory argues that security is socially constructed through discursive practices. Instead of focusing on security, it focuses on how a problem becomes or is transformed into a security threat (Hough et al, 2015). In order to construct a shared social understanding of threats, securitisation theory, therefore, places a strong emphasis on process.…”

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Not So Ambitious? Indonesia’s Coal Dependence Amidst The Era of Energy Transition

Febriyanti,

Murtadho,

Almattushyva

2023

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Indonesia ratified the Paris Agreement to combat climate change and pledged to reduce its carbon emissions. This commitment, however, contrasts Indonesia's development plan under Joko Widodo's administration. His policy has enabled the development of additional power plants, hence perpetuating Indonesia's reliance on coal. Thus, it is essential to examine why Indonesia is still struggling to break free from its dependence on coal, despite its ambitious goal to tackle climate change. This paper will apply the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory to explore how security is defined and shapes Indonesia's energy transition process. Furthermore, this research will use distributive and procedural justice theory to examine the decision-making process and climate change policy implementation. In order to accomplish so, we will employ qualitative methods such as desk studies, which will comprise academic literature as well as government statements and regulations. This paper argues that Indonesia's energy transition is impeded by how other security issues are prioritised above climate change. In addition, the lack of justice principles in the climate policy formulation and implementation has contributed to Indonesia's reliance on coal. Since Indonesia is the world's largest coal exporter and one of the top ten global polluters, this study intends to contribute to identifying challenges in the transition to renewable energy.Keywords: Indonesia; coal dependence; energy transition; securitisation; distributive and procedural justice

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Not So Ambitious? Indonesia’s Coal Dependence Amidst The Era of Energy Transition

Febriyanti,

Murtadho,

Almattushyva

2023

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“…Mass destruction in World War I and World War II secured principles of Mutually Assured Destruction; The atomic bomb of Hiroshima, in August 1945, unequivocally substantiated MAD outward of state-on-state conflict (Williams & McDonald, 2018). Vast expenditure placed monetary value on military development, producing a lucrative arms trade market to justify spending, materializing newfound conflict prospects, inherently neglecting human security in nuclear disasters seeing the end of humanity, producing insecurity by default in the prioritization of profit at the expense of societal well-being (Hough et al, 2015). To date the market remains with the UK estimated as the second largest exporter of defense weaponry; from 2012-2021, 51% of total export was to the Middle East (Kirk-Wade, 2023).…”

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Profit-driven policy and human insecurity

Fereday

2023

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This article provides a holistic account of the deep-rooted structural harms permeating contemporary society, offering theoretical and philosophical analysis of how such harm occurs, and how it is supported and sustained. Context is supplied so as to assess the ways in which profit and power are a primary focality of contemporary societal structures, at the expense of human security. By providing contextual analysis, it assesses the current political, economic, and societal climate and how human insecurity is a by-product of such. Critically considering how profit-driven policies exist within this setting, it offers a critical consideration of how power dynamics create a disparity between social, state and corporate actors and their subjective (il)legal proceedings. The article retains the question of whether true human security is an attainable reality.

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“…Securitisation theory has now produced an inordinate amount of specialist and supplementary literature under the heading of critical security studies (for a review of which see Van Munster 2016). Security studies has itself has become an important element of higher education curricula, replete with its own epistemological territories (Collins 2017(Collins , 2018Dunn Cavelty & Balzacq 2016;Hough 2014;Hough et al 2015;Peoples 2014;Peoples & Vaughan-Williams 2010;Williams 2003;Williams & McDonald 2018).…”

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Securitisation theory and the securitised university: Europe and the nascent colonisation of global intellectual capital

Gearon¹

2019

Transformation in Higher Education

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Background: This article explores the increasing prevalence of security themes in higher education policy.Aim: Addressing neglect in security studies on the role of the university in the processes of securitisation, this article shows the integral relationship between securitisation theory and the securitised university.Setting: Drawing on exemplars from European higher education, the article argues that this complex epistemological transformation is part of a new and as yet little understood new colonisation of global intellectual capital. Methods:The argument is in three stages: (1) that securitisation theory can account for the emergence of the securitised university; (2) that this securitisation of universities is integral to the political process of Europeanisation; and (3) that from this European context we may glimpse a nascent colonisation of global intellectual capital.Results: This analysis of securitisation has, therefore, deep if as yet little explored epistemological implications for the transformation of universities worldwide, particularly because of this epistemological dimension, a de facto securitisation of knowledge. Conclusion:This article concludes that these transformations are also important if at present neglected element to historic and contemporary debates on decolonising the curriculum, which frequently highlight the postcolonial relations and culturally still powerful relations between continents, for example between Europe and Africa.

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International Security Studies

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Not So Ambitious? Indonesia’s Coal Dependence Amidst The Era of Energy Transition

Not So Ambitious? Indonesia’s Coal Dependence Amidst The Era of Energy Transition

Profit-driven policy and human insecurity

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