Corporate Risk and National Security Redefined

Informationen zum Autor Karen Lund Petersen is Researcher and Deputy Director at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Klappentext Situated within the debate on terrorism risk and security! this book investigates the role of private companies in counter-terrorism policies. With case studies on airports! airlines! ports and food production companies! it challenges the modern understandings of national security and corporate risk. Zusammenfassung Situated within the debate on terrorism risk and security, this book investigates the role of private companies in counter-terrorism policies. With case studies on airports, airlines, ports and food production companies it challenges the modern understandings of national security and corporate risk. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Risk Studies: Defining a Place for Politics? 3. Studying Concepts of Risk and Security 4. Counterterrorism in Denmark: A Welfare State Approach to Private Security? 5. Counterterrorism in the United States: A Liberal Approach to Counterterrorism? 6. Conclusions: Political and Private Responsibility and Authority Redefined

Product details

• Authors: Karen Lund Petersen, Karen (Diis Lund Petersen, Lund Petersen Karen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2011
• EAN: 9780415579995
• ISBN: 978-0-415-57999-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, Warfare and defence