Security Privatization How Non-security-related Private Businesses S
This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions. While PMSCs provi
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curity Privatization How Non-security-related Private Businesses Shape Security Governance
Security Privatization
Oldrich Bures • Helena Carrapico Editors
Security Privatization How Non-security-related Private Businesses Shape Security Governance
Editors Oldrich Bures Center for Security Studies Metropolitan University Prague Prague, Czech Republic
Helena Carrapico Department of Politics and International Relations School of Languages and Social Sciences Aston University Birmingham, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-63009-0 ISBN 978-3-319-63010-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63010-6
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Foreword: “Widening the Debate” and Raising Questions
This volume is a welcome contribution to the debates flourishing in private security studies.1 The editors rightly underscore that this academic field must keep up with a field of practice undergoing rapid transformations. Their “key aim” to “widen existing debates on security privatisation” beyond PMSCs is therefore to be hailed. Their focus on how non-security-related private business is becoming part of security governance dovetails nicely with ongoing work in this area. Here, I therefore wish to engage the debates this volume opens by highlighting three questions it raises. I do so because these questions are of import not only for private security studies, narrowly or broadly defined, but also beyond. This volume will hopefully contribute to directing sustained attention to them. The first of these questions is: What is a security function? This volume is centred on how an
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