Das ameaças securitizadas: o caso da Wikileaks

Abstract

Globally known since 2010, Wikileaks exposed multiple secret documents of States and companies since its establishment, in 2006, by Julian Assange. These leaks had repercussions with the potential to, in a way, destabilize, an even promote changes in the International System. Using the Securitization theory, conceived within the field of International Security, we are going to analyze if Wikileaks had its performance compromised. Hence, our research problem is: if by leaking secret documents of States, Wikileaks presented itself as an actor capable of creating instability in the International System, and would be, consequently, susceptible to securitization? Our argument is that this social instability would be caused by social changes promoted by the acts of the organization. The overall goal of the present paper is to understand how Wikileaks, by creating changes in the International System, became susceptible to be subject to a process of securitization by actors willingly interested in preserving status quo. Thus, the paper is a case study of the possible process of securitization undergone by Wikileaks