Säkerhetisering och avsäkerhetisering - En diskurs förd av Socialdemokraterna

Sammanfattning: The following essay aspires to implement securitization and desecuritization theory by the use of discourse analysis on a question related to security politics. This will be done by analyzing speech expressed by the Swedish Social Democratic party regarding security politics during three different years: 1997, 2014 and 2022. The essay will then further analyze how they could motivate a positive or negative position regarding a membership in NATO through their discourse, with regard to the Social democratic party as the main actor. The result of the analysis demonstrates how the Social democratic party has legitimized certain policies each year by altering their discourse, and concludes securitization and desecuritization as its method for doing so. By referring to an issue as an already existing threat or not, the party was able to discuss membership in NATO in different ways by using certain words which characterized the severity of the matter.