Securitization Theory and Its Expansion

Yılmaz, İhsan; Shipoli, Erdoan; Demir, Mustafa

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-0506-5_2

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“…By analyzing how authoritarian leaders, especially elected autocrats, legitimize their autocracies, we can see that they resort to securitization more than previously thought. They securitize non-security issues, construct threats, and legitimize the use of extraordinary means to contain as well as steer polarizing rhetoric and maintain their authoritarian regimes; however, more importantly, securitization constructs a state of exception, where previously unthought of policies are enacted by untraditional methods, and in this state of exception "all hands are on deck"-securitizing actors expand their reach beyond the issues they have securitized, because "exceptional times call for exceptional measures" (Yilmaz et al 2021a(Yilmaz et al , 2023b.…”

Section: Securitization To Legitimize and Delegitimizementioning

confidence: 99%

Authoritarian Use of Religion to Delegitimize and Securitize the Opposition

2023

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This article examines the use of religion by an authoritarian ruling party to delegitimize political opposition through securitization. The case study presented is the ruling AKP in Turkey, which initially promised to desecuritize the Kurdish issue to co-opt the Kurdish opposition but eventually resorted to the demonization narratives and repressive policies of the secular Turkish state; however, in addition to labeling the Kurdish opposition as terrorists, the AKP deployed religion to legitimize its repressive policies on religious grounds. The Turkish case shows that not in legitimizing (via desecuritization), but in delegitimizing opposition (via securitization) religion has been the main tool deployed by the ruling party. This finding needs to be tested in other contexts and cases. Additionally, since this paper only focuses on the narrative of the AKP’s religious delegitimization, further research is needed to measure its efficacy and impact.

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Section: Securitization To Legitimize and Delegitimizementioning

confidence: 99%