ISBN: 9780521154253

`Security Beyond the State succeeds on several counts. For those interested in emerging security patterns, it provides a tour of the horizon on critical but neglected issues. For those in… Meer...

`Security Beyond the State succeeds on several counts. For those interested in emerging security patterns, it provides a tour of the horizon on critical but neglected issues. For those interested in globalization, it demonstrates how globalization is shaping the production of security on a global scale and shifting its management to the private realm. For those interested in international relations theory, it pushes on some of the most taken-for-granted categories, including the basic function of the state and the location of modern sovereignty. And, it is one of those rare books that will be profitably read by both scholars and practitioners alike.' Michael Barnett Stassen Chair of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota `Every now and then, a book comes along which changes the way in which we think about important subjects. This is such a book. The authors provide an important and compelling argument that the privatization of on-the-ground everyday security in states on the periphery of the global economic and diplomatic centers of power strengthens states at the same time that it refashions the bases of their authority. This is a book which goes beyond the facile generalizations and intellectual and cultural prejudices which surround some of the study of "globalization" and particularly the study of private security in Africa. The theoretical framework and the empirical detail are both quite remarkable.' William Reno Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Northwestern University `A major contribution to current understandings of the formation and operation of security assemblages in a global world. The authors draw from and build upon the latest conceptual and explanatory advances in criminological thinking, security studies and elsewhere in the social sciences. Their analysis of different kinds and levels of security auspices and providers, and their relations, is t ... Books, [PU: Cambridge University Press]<

ISBN: 9780521154253

Paperback / softback. New. A groundbreaking study of the emergence and operations of a global private security sector. The authors illustrate their arguments through detailed accounts of… Meer...

Paperback / softback. New. A groundbreaking study of the emergence and operations of a global private security sector. The authors illustrate their arguments through detailed accounts of the involvement of private security organisations in the oil industry in Nigeria, diamond mining in Sierra Leone, and urban security in Kenya and South Africa., 6<

2010, ISBN: 0521154251

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