Security Beyond the State
Private security in international politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6023670 |
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| Authors | Julie Berg (0000-0003-4730-1778, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 444 |
| Pages | 496-497 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International Politics, R Abrahamsen, 2010 |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/ads035 |
| OpenAlex | W2002338014 |
| Language | EN |
The aim of this well-written book is essentially to develop a conceptual framework through which to engage with the complex intertwining of global security privatization developments and shifts in national and global governance. The authors also have an empirical project: to debunk certain prevailing claims about transnational private security companies (those not engaged in military activities) and their relationship to the nation state. Abrahamsen and Williams meet these aims through an interesting case study analysis of private security provision in four African countries, focusing on the protection of resource extraction in Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and on daily urban security provision in South Africa and Kenya. By choosing these empirical sites of analysis that are characterized by ‘transboundary formations’ (p. 4) the authors are able to demonstrate that the growth and pervasiveness of private security is intimately linked to developments in international politics and governance. The resulting rise of new security configurations constitutes a fundamental blurring of public/private and global/local dichotomies (which still prevail in some disciplines but not in others). Through their discussions of the rise of private security, focusing on the historical development of key companies, and their empirical case studies, they ultimately develop a relational account of the public and private in which state disassembly and reassembly, and the redistribution of power, have facilitated the rise of private security in complex and dynamic ways.
Business · Cloud computing · Cloud computing security · Corporate governance · Critical security studies · Development economics · Dichotomy · Economics · International security · National security · Network security policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private security · Security studies · Sierra leone · Sociology · State (computer science) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Public Administration
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Gatekeeping practices in global environmental politics
Assembling Community Policing
Domestic Peacekeeping Practices in the Tamale Metropolis
Introduction
Assembling UN Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism in Ghana
Morphogenesis and Cooperation in the International Political System
Securosociality
Eyes, Ears, and Wheels
The continuation of sovereign capture by other means
Smooth security. Creative adaptation, mimicry and deception in everyday securityscapes
The post-politics of public-private security governance
Policiamento plural
The Duty of Care for Citizens Abroad
Contracting out Support Services in Future Expeditionary Operations
Hybrid security governance, post-election violence and the legitimacy of community-based armed groups in urban Kenya
Harnessing corporations
Hiding in plain sight
Fragmented We Fall
Institutionalized Intervention
Being reformed
Border Security and Drug Trafficking in Senegal
Global Assemblages of Security Governance and Contemporary International Intervention
Private Security and the Public-Private Divide
Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing
History, periodization and the character of contemporary crime control
Exporting decentred security governance
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Nation Branding, National Self-Esteem, and the Constitution of Subjectivity in Late Modernity
Cerezos en África. Reflexiones sobre la cooperación japonesa para el desarrollo de África
Reflections on the nature of policing and its development
Pioneers in policing
Uneasy Partners Against Crime
The underlying causes of military outsourcing in the USA and UK
Defensive development, combative contradictions
Broadening 'business', widening 'peace
Hybrid security governance in Liberia in the aftermath of UN intervention
Radicalisation and violent extremism in West Africa
Corporate sovereignty
Public or private? Blurring the lines through YouTube recruitment of military veterans by private security companies
The business–peace nexus
Probing the links between political economy and non-traditional security
Managing risk, the state and political economy in historical perspective
Securitizing capital
Privatization and coercion
Private security regimes
The moral economy of security
Capital struggles in security networks
Securing the security
The False Promise of Multi-stakeholder Governance
Thepartialturn to politics in plural policing studies
Emotions and securitisation
Everyday sovereignty
In the Business of Peace
The regulation of private military and security companies
Privatizing security and authoritarian adaptation in the Arab region since the 2010–2011 uprisings
The private military industry and neoliberal imperialism
Fixing Meanings in Global Governance
Plural Policing in Papua New Guinea
Inside the System, Outside the Law
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets
Global corporate crime-fighters
Private security companies in the Czech Republic
Capitalizing on emergence
Of ‘true professionals’ and ‘ethical hero warriors’
The mercenary moniker
Securing the Anthropocene? International policy experiments in digital hacktivism
Militarism and its limits
The Public, the Private and the Evolution of Security Studies
Making a safer space? Rethinking space and securitization in the old town redevelopment project of Kashgar, China
Onset of new business? Private military and security companies and conflict onset in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2011
Concluding comments
Advancing private security studies
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Is maritime security gender-blind
Transecting Security and Space in Phnom Penh
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Mercenarism, norms and market exchange
Privatizing civil society
Policing Environmental Injustice
Police guns and private security cars. Ordering the state through socio-material policing assemblages in Nairobi
The location of international practices
Military responses to Covid-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements
The soldier’s tale
Profiting from the failed state of Somalia
Policing in Johannesburg after apartheid
Mediating Mobility in West Africa
Private security’s accountabilities within polycentric assemblages
The private security complex and its regulation in Africa
It’s All About the Body
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Neo-Liberal Methods of Labour Repression
Crime, insecurity and corruption
The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security1
The Migration Industry and the H‐2 Visa in the United States
No Smoke without Fire
Exploring PSC–military relations
Inequality and the Emergence of Vigilante Organizations
| Highly cited | No |
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