In the closing decade of the 20th century the myriad challenges posed by infectious disease in a globalized environment began to be re-conceptualized as threats to national and human security. The most widely applied model for identifying and responding to such threats is securitization theory, as proposed by the Copenhagen School. Although its analytical framework is generally accepted, its ut...

Reverse mortgages are new financial products that allow the elders to convert their home equity into cash until they die. From the provider’s perspective, longevity risk and house price risk are the major risks involved with reverse mortgages. This paper proposes a securitization method to transfer the risks associated with reverse mortgages and focuses on tranching longevity and house price ri...

The securitization of financial assets is a form of structured finance, developed by the U.S. banking world in the early 1980’s (in Mortgage-Backed-Securities format) in order to reduce regulatory capital requirements by removing and transferring risk from the balance sheet to other parties. Today, virtually any form of debt obligations and receivables has been securitized, resulting in an appr...

This article traces the emergence of ‘Chinese influence’ as a conceptual touchstone Australia’s public policy discourse in 2017–2018. The People’s Republic China’s (PRC) efforts to influence politics abroad had been well documented since 2000s and cannot explain timing their securitization from mid-2017. It was through formation securitizing coalition intelligence officials, politicians, journa...

Abstract As the world continues to fail reduce and control global surface temperatures, use of solar radiation management (SRM) technology by one actor or a small coalition actors is becoming increasingly likely. Yet, most social scientific literature on geoengineering does not tend systematically engage with this possibility; scholars focus either governance banning SRM usage research altogeth...