Security entrepreneurs : performing protection in post-cold war europe /

Focusing on four East European polities-Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania--this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been central to post-communist liberaliza...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gheciu, Alexandra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Private security services > Europe, Eastern.
National security > Former Soviet republics.
Private military companies > Former Soviet republics.
Services privés de sécurité > Europe de l'Est.
Sociétés militaires privées > Ex-URSS.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Private security services.
National security.
Private military companies.
Eastern Europe.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Security Entrepreneurs: Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1: The Reconstitution of Security Provision after the Cold War; Toward New Forms of Public Power in Post-Communist Europe; Thinking about Security Commercialization from Different Perspectives; Performing Protection in Post-Communist Europe; Overview of the Book; Notes; 2: The State-Market-Crime Nexus in the Early Days of Post-Communism; Paradoxes of Liberalization in Eastern Europe; Reproducing Old Ways of Doing Things in the New Age of Liberalism
  • The Old Nomenclature as EntrepreneursTransforming Security Provision after the Yugoslav Conflicts; The Dynamics of Illicit Internationalization in the First Years of Transition; Notes; 3: Toward a New Political Economy of Security Provision: The Impact of Europeanization and Globalization; Returning to Europe, (Re)constituting the Field of Security; Seeking to "Normalize" the Western Balkans after the Yugoslav Conflicts; Transnational Mobilization in the Context of European Integration; Notes; 4: Contestation, Cooperation, and Competition in (Re)Defining European Security
  • The Struggle to (Re)constitute the European Field of SecurityGatekeeping and Social Capital in the Private Security Industry; Contesting the Meaning of Harmonization in European Security; Changing the Rules of the Game in Public Procurement in Europe; Notes; 5: Between the Old and the New: Contemporary Dynamics of (In)Security in Eastern Europe; Toward New Public-Private Partnerships in Security Provision; PSCs' Campaigns to Contest "the Rules of the Game" in the Twenty-First Century; Old Habits Die Hard: Competing Logics of Security Provision in Eastern Europe; Notes
  • 6: Normative Dilemmas and Challenges of Security CommercializationAccountable Security Providers?; Redefining the Relationship between the State and Civil Society; The Illicit Security Professionals: The Dark Side of Europeanization and Globalization; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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