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Regulating Security Policy and Practice via a Norm of Just Securitization

2025· book-chapter· en· W4417469803 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Rita Floyd

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Security and Public Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSecuritizationScrutinyNorm (philosophy)TerrorismSecurity policyOrder (exchange)

Abstract

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Abstract It is not uncommon for security practitioners to think that ethics are for secure times only. In times of emergency, the thinking goes, there simply isn’t time to check possible responses against ethical criteria. However, the well-documented unethical excesses of the war on terrorism (domestically and internationally) have instilled a wariness in politicians’ and security practitioners’ conduct and morals that increasingly compels security practitioners not to sideline ethics. The same is aided by our rampant social media culture that, for all its faults, offers unprecedented levels of scrutiny of government policy and conduct. In short, there has never been a better time for pushing a norm of just securitization, one that seeks to regulate the just initiation of securitization, just conduct of securitization, and just termination of securitization. This chapter explains what an ideal of such a norm (i.e. a standard of behaviour) would look like. But how practicable are these principles in the real world? In order to establish this, the chapter examines three real-world cases—securitization against infectious disease in Canada, securitization against terrorism in the EU, and securitization against drought in Cape Town, South Africa—for evidence of the norm of just securitization.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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