Security beyond the state : private security in international politics / Rita Abrahamsen, Michael C. Williams.

"Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying convention...

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Main Author: Abrahamsen, Rita, 1966-
Other Authors: Williams, Michael C. (Michael Charles), 1960-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Physical Description:viii, 272 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: 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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