The concept of “securitization” was developed by the Copenhagen School to analyze the process whereby powerful actors such as governments identify a particular phenomenon as an existential threat and legitimize the use of extraordinary measures to combat it. The...

Benedict Anderson's seminal work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism from 1983 is one of the most important accounts of the historical rise and development of nationalism. Its basic insight and argument is that nations...