| 中文摘要 | 第4-12页 |
| Abstract | 第12-20页 |
| Acronyms | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第26-50页 |
| 1.1 Background of the debate | 第27-28页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the research | 第28-31页 |
| 1.3 Objectives of the research | 第31页 |
| 1.4 Research questions | 第31-32页 |
| 1.5 Case study | 第32-34页 |
| 1.6 Critical discourse analysis | 第34-35页 |
| 1.7 Conceptual Framework and Theoretical Framework | 第35-43页 |
| 1.8 Literature review | 第43-45页 |
| 1.9 Contribution to the existing literature | 第45-46页 |
| 1.10 Data | 第46-47页 |
| 1.11 Thesis organization | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter 2 Nigeria and the oil factor | 第50-66页 |
| 2.1 An Overview of Nigeria | 第50-55页 |
| 2.2 The Nigerian oil industry | 第55-61页 |
| 2.3 Nigeria:An emerging world oil provider | 第61-66页 |
| Chapter 3 US energy Security | 第66-80页 |
| 3.1 The evolution and trend of the US of energy security | 第66-68页 |
| 3.2 Oil crisis and its impacts in US energy security | 第68-74页 |
| 3.3 The Bush administration,the oil and US energy security | 第74-80页 |
| Chapter 4 The Gulf of Guinea and the Nigerian oil and the USenergy security nexus | 第80-94页 |
| 4.1 US energy security and the Gulf of Guinean oil | 第80-88页 |
| 4.2 The evolution of US Nigeria relations | 第88-90页 |
| 4.3 The Nigerian oil and the US National security | 第90-94页 |
| Chapter 5 The US securitization of Nigeria | 第94-120页 |
| 5.1 The discursive threat construction of the militia as major threat | 第94-103页 |
| 5.2 Discursive construction of the poor governance as a serious threat | 第103-104页 |
| 5.3 Discursive construction of the Structural problems as a threat | 第104页 |
| 5.4 The Discursive construction of the terrorism | 第104-113页 |
| 5.5 Legitimization | 第113页 |
| 5.6 Security assistance and militarization of Nigeria | 第113-116页 |
| 5.7 Assistance in democratic institution and good governance | 第116-117页 |
| 5.8 Development and social assistance | 第117-120页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第120-128页 |
| 6.1 The debate, the main and the secondary research questions revisited | 第120-122页 |
| 6.2 Securitization:The theory | 第122-124页 |
| 6.3 Research Methodology | 第124-126页 |
| 6.4 Findings | 第126-128页 |
| Bibliography | 第128-140页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第140页 |
