With an emphasis on gendered institutional logics across its three pillars—security, development, and human rights—the current article explores the growth of the UN’s counterterrorism architecture since the early 2000s. It use discourse analysis and natural language processing to examine about 500 documents from 32 UN agencies using postmodern discourse theory and feminist institutionalism. The results show that institutional discourses are becoming more balanced and hybridized, indicating a move away from functionally divided governance and toward a dynamic, networked type of “nexus governance,” which promotes integration and a covert kind of securitization.
