Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011
The Federal Government of Canada from 2006 to 2011 presented a security discourse and policy regarding the Arctic region. In order to understand the government's use of security language this project adopted the Copenhagen School's securitization theory. Using this theory's approach,...
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ftarcabc:oai:arcabc.ca:unbc_15464 2024-06-02T08:00:24+00:00 Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011 Graveline, Matthew Raymond Alexander (Author) Smith, Heather (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 2014 electronic Number of pages in document: 85 https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A15464 https://doi.org/10.24124/2014/bpgub1636 English eng University of Northern British Columbia https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A15464 uuid: 79538bb2-47fa-4ed3-a760-b69c77bf2e43 bib-number: b1949982 https://doi.org/10.24124/2014/bpgub1636 lac: TC-BPGUB-1636 Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ National security -- Government policy -- Canada Canada Northern -- Strategic aspects Northern -- Politics and government National security -- Arctic Regions FC3963.9.P65 G73 2014 Text research (documents) 2014 ftarcabc https://doi.org/10.24124/2014/bpgub1636 2024-05-06T00:30:44Z The Federal Government of Canada from 2006 to 2011 presented a security discourse and policy regarding the Arctic region. In order to understand the government's use of security language this project adopted the Copenhagen School's securitization theory. Using this theory's approach, this project dissects the relevant government discourses and policies, pertaining to the Arctic, to determine which sectors the government attempted to securitize. It will be demonstrated that the government has attempted to securitize the Arctic from 2006 to 2011, particularly in the traditional political and military sectors, while societal, economic, and environmental sectors were not securitized but rather their possible threats were framed as opportunities. These conclusions resulted from this government's political worldview around conducting foreign policy and how it wanted to position Arctic security for Canada in its growing Northern region. --Leaf ii. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1949982 Text Arctic Arca (BC's Digital Treasures) Arctic Canada |
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The Federal Government of Canada from 2006 to 2011 presented a security discourse and policy regarding the Arctic region. In order to understand the government's use of security language this project adopted the Copenhagen School's securitization theory. Using this theory's approach, this project dissects the relevant government discourses and policies, pertaining to the Arctic, to determine which sectors the government attempted to securitize. It will be demonstrated that the government has attempted to securitize the Arctic from 2006 to 2011, particularly in the traditional political and military sectors, while societal, economic, and environmental sectors were not securitized but rather their possible threats were framed as opportunities. These conclusions resulted from this government's political worldview around conducting foreign policy and how it wanted to position Arctic security for Canada in its growing Northern region. --Leaf ii. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1949982 |
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Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011 |
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Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011 |
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Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011 |
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Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011 |
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Looking deeper into security in the Arctic policy of the Canadian government from 2006 to 2011 |
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