Buzan, B., Wæver, O. & de Wilde, J. (1998). Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. doi:10.1515/9781685853808.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The exchange cited it at turn U16 for securitization: naming something an existential threat moves it out of normal politics and licenses emergency measures. It is the framework that Ku and Finch’s audience-agency argument, registered in the same batch, is written against.