Security Beyond the State - Private Security in International Politics

Informationen zum Autor Rita Abrahamsen is Associate Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She has lectured and published widely on African politics, and is currently joint-editor of the journal African Affairs. She is the author of Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa. Klappentext Investigates the implications of the globalization of private security for politics, security, and international relations. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The untold story: the globalization of private security; 2. Late modernity and the rise of private security; 3. Power and governance: global assemblages and the security field; 4. Of oil and diamonds: global security assemblages in resource extraction; 5. Safer cities or cities of walls? The politics of urban global security assemblages; 6. Security, politics, and global assemblages.

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• Authors: Rita Abrahamsen, Rita (University of Ottawa) Abrahamsen, Rita (University of Ottawa) Williams Abrahamsen, Rita Williams Abrahamsen, Michael C. Williams, Michael C. (University of Ottawa) Williams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521154253
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15425-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sicherheitspolitik, Sicherheit (soziologisch), Sicherheitsdienst