Hannah Broecker is a lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (Germany).  Previously, she has worked and taught on issues of international security studies at the Collaborative Research Centre 'Dynamics of Security' of the Universities Marburg (Germany) and Gießen (Germany), as well as at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). She has also been engaged with issues of international security and development at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF, Germany), the African Development Bank (Uganda), and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (Nigeria and UK).

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. On the Origins and Nature of Meaning.- Chapter 3. Investigating the Meaning of Security.- Chapter 4. Securitisation as Hegemonic Discourse Formation.- Chapter 5. The Security-development Nexus.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.