Rita Floyd’s The Morality of Security: A Theory Just Securitization is an important and insightful book that delineates a theory just securitization (modified from the jus ad bellum in bello criteria war theory) involving three sets principles governing initiation securitization, conduct desecuritization. This much- needed addition to security studies literature. Here, I apply (JST) threat pose...

This article pushes for a postcolonial, feminist critique of “anti-terrorist” securitization, that makes space transformative peace-building. The post-9/11 securitization the African continent builds on long legacy colonial conquest and racist Othering. Somalia is regularly centered here, portrayed in media state narratives as volatile failed state, one produces terrorist bodies acts. But rathe...