Traditionally, the research conducted in the field of security studies have been primarily focused on questions regarding war and conflict between states and alliances. After the Cold War, security research focus shifted primarily to stabilization of regions in the third world and the war on terror.   Within the field of security studies, the consensus is that terrorism as a phenomenon is considered to be a threat to the democratic world. However, there is no extensive research concerning whether or not states consider individual terrorist groups as security threats.   The purpose of this study is to use the Securitization theory by The Copenhagen School to comment on how individual states describes the terror group called “the Islamic State” (the “IS”) and if the group is described as a security threat to their individual state or not.   Furthermore, the purpose of this study is to determine if there are differences in the official statements issued by states which are conducting war against IS and by those that are not. Another aspect that will examined is whether one can determine a difference in the way IS is described before and after the attacks in Paris November 13, 2015.   The results show that the IS, before and after the Paris attacks, is described as a security threat by the head of state in Britain, as a state that wages war on the IS, but not by the head of state in Sweden, which does not wage war against the IS. It is also possible to detect a difference between the countries waging war against the IS and those that do not, in the respective head of states’ discourse. These results indicate that states that are at war with the IS will also describe the IS as a higher threat in their official statements.

The theme of my thesis is the role of securitization of assets in American sub prime crisis and following global financial crisis. The trend of securitization was putting through on financial markets in last decades. This trend played important part in the beginning of crisis and also in its spreading in other countries and other industries of economy. The goal of my thesis is to reveal the role of securitization in the contemporary crisis, show its impact on financial markets, point out its risks and propose the possibilities of its future development.

This thesis aims to contribute to the scholarship of International Relations (IR) by researching the processes that lie at the heart of military interventions and their legitimization through the lens of securitization theory. Focusing on the case of the French operations Serval and Barkhane in Sahel. This study builds on the contention that securitization is best applicable to military interventions in the form of a sequential model that distinguish three steps: the stage of identification, the stage of mobilization and the stage of desecuritization. Coupled with a qualitative content analysis it becomes a redoubtable tool to uncover the construction of legitimization.

Under the background that China's economy has entered the new normal, de-leveraging, structural adjustment, and resolution of various risks have become an essential part of macro-control. The unique advantages of PPP asset securitization make this tool widely recognized and respected by the government, enterprises, and investors. On December 21st, 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission and the China Securities Regulatory Commission jointly issued the Notice on Promoting the Asset Securitization of Government and Social Capital Cooperation (PPP) Projects in the Field of Traditional Infrastructure. This prompted the PPP asset securitization process to enter the express train. Therefore, it is particularly important to strengthen the research on the securitization of PPP assets.The author mainly uses the literature review method and a comparative analysis method to study the securitization of PPP assets. This paper first carries out theoretical research on PPP asset securitization, and then studies cash flow analysis theory, asset reorganization theory, risk isolation theory, and credit enhancement of PPP asset securitization; and then participates in the subject, operation model of PPP asset securitization, The operating mechanism is studied; the related cases are used to analyze the cases, and then the research conclusions are drawn, and policy recommendations are proposed. It was found that PPP asset securitization can improve the creditworthiness of the issuer and reduce the issuance cost. Further suggestions include strengthening cash flow management for PPP asset securitization projects; encouraging enterprises to restructure assets through PPP asset securitization; strengthening risk control of PPP asset securitization projects; strengthening statutory construction; Change government functions. / Bakom bakgrunden att Kinas ekonomi har gått in på den nya normala, de-hävstången, strukturanpassningen och upplösningen av olika risker har blivit en viktig del av makrokontrollen. De unika fördelarna med värdepapperisering av värdepapperstillgångar gör det här verktyget allmänt erkänt och respekterat av regeringen, företagen och investerarna. Den 21 december 2016 utfärdade National Development and Reform Commission och China Securities Regulatory Commission gemensamt meddelandet om att främja värdepapperisering av projekt för offentliga och sociala kapital (PPP) inom området för traditionell infrastruktur. Detta ledde till att värdepapperiseringsprocessen för PPP-tillgången skulle komma in i expresståget. Därför är det särskilt viktigt att stärka forskningen om värdepapperisering av PPP-tillgångar.Författaren använder huvudsakligen litteraturgranskningsmetoden och en jämförande analysmetod för att studera värdepapperisering av PPP-tillgångar. I detta papper utförs teoretisk forskning om värdepapperisering av PPP-tillgångar, och sedan studeras analysen av kassaflödesanalys, tillgångsreorganisationsteori, riskisoleringsteori och kreditförbättring av värdepapperisering av PPP-tillgångar. och sedan delta i ämnet, operation modell av PPP tillgång värdepapperisering, Operativ mekanismen studeras; De relaterade fallen används för att analysera fallen, och sedan slås forskningsundersökningarna och politiska rekommendationer föreslås. Det konstaterades att värdepapperisering av värdepapper för värdepapper kan förbättra emittentens kreditvärdighet och minska emissionskostnaden. Ytterligare förslag inkluderar att stärka kassaflödeshanteringen för PPP-värdepapperiseringsprojekt. uppmuntra företag att omstrukturera tillgångar genom PPP-tillgångs värdepapperisering stärka riskkontrollen av PPP-värdepapperiseringsprojekt stärka lagstadgad konstruktion Ändra regeringsfunktioner.

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No / Purpose – Bank securitisation is deemed to have been a major contributing factor to the 2007/2008 financial crises via fuelling credit growth accompanied by lower banks’ credit standards. Yet, prior to the crisis a common view was that securitisation activity makes the financial system more stable as risk was more easily diversified, managed and allocated economy-wide. The purpose of this paper is to review the extant literature to explore the so far generated knowledge on the impact of securitisation on banking risks. In particular, the authors examine the theoretical arguments and empirical studies on securitisation and banking risks before and after the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. Design/methodology/approach – Review and discussion of the literature. Findings – Theoretical literature univocally accentuate the undesirable consequences of securitisation, which may promote retention of riskier loans, undermine banks’ screening and monitoring incentives and enhance banks’ risk appetite. However, empirical evidence does not uniformly support the theoretical conclusions. If banks are securitisation active they lend more to risky borrowers, have less diversified portfolios and hold less capital, retain riskier loans and are aggressive in loan pricing. Others argue that securitisation reduces banks insolvency risk, increases profitability, provides liquidity and leads to greater supply of loans. Mortgage securitisation is an area where there is consistent evidence of bank risk taking via securitisation. Originality/value – The paper identifies open issues for future research.

Frankfurt (Main), University, Diss., 2008.

This thesis analyzed the securitization of COVID-19 in Norway as a negotiation of meaning between the public and Norway’s prime minister. By employing framing analysis and a sociological approach to securitization, this thesis breaks with the binary view of ‘audience acceptance’ in securitization theory’s original framework. Instead, it argues for the relevance of understanding securitization in the context of COVID-19 as an intersubjective process between securitizing actor and audience. While scholars have tended to overlook the audience’s role in securitization processes, this thesis analyzed both the securitizing actor’s and the audience’s perspective. This made it possible to reveal competing views regarding threat perception and emergency measures.  The thesis contributed to the theoretical debate on the audience by highlighting the special ingrained role the public has been assigned in this particular securitization context. The nuanced analysis of audience acceptance showed that despite a general resonance regarding the threat perception, it revealed important tensions regarding the measures and the audience’s participatory role in the process. This questions whether COVID-19 in Norway can be considered to have been ‘successfully securitized’.