ABSTRACT

This analysis examines the actions taken by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper between 2006 and 2015 in drawing attention to Canada’s Arctic territory through the lens of securitization theory. This analysis focuses not only on the rhetorical attention that the Harper government paid to Arctic security, but also the difficulties encountered in translating a discursive securitization process into tangible policy outcomes. This analysis additionally focuses on how the Harper government’s securitization of the Canadian Arctic resonated in public opinion polling. This research has implications for connecting securitization research focusing more on the construction of speech-acts to second-order results in bureaucratic processes. By expanding on existing tenets of securitization theory, this analysis is a useful case study in understanding how national governments “sell” the idea of an Arctic security “problem” to their respective citizens.

摘要

该分析考察了总理史蒂芬·哈珀（Stephen Harper）政府在2006年至2015年间通过证券化理论的镜头在吸引人们关注加拿大北极地区方面所采取的行动。这种分析不仅集中在哈珀政府对北极安全的反响上，而且还包括在将一种有争议的证券化过程转化为有形的政策成果方面遇到的困难。该分析还着重于哈珀政府对加拿大北极的证券化在民意测验中的共鸣。这项研究对于将证券化研究更多地集中于官僚程序中言语行为的建构与二阶结果的联系上具有意义。通过扩展现有证券化理论的宗旨，