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What constitutes ‘national security discourses’? How far have the IR Feminists questioned how ‘security’ has been problematised?

  • UPSC 2012
  • 15 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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A discourse is a structured way of speaking that fixes what counts as true and sayable. National security discourses are the statements, images and expert vocabularies through which states define who is threatened, by whom, and what may be done in response. Feminist IR asks whose experience they leave out and what they make normal.

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  • What constitutes national security discourses
  • How IR feminists problematised security
  • How far: achievements and limits
  • Conclusion
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