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Security Entrepreneurs - Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe (Hardcover)
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Security Entrepreneurs - Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe (Hardcover)
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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 liberalization, and have profoundly
shaped those states and their integration into European
institutional structures and global economic and political
circuits. They have also affected - and been shaped by- the
behaviour and power of regional and global actors (e.g. European
institutions, regional, and global corporations) in Eastern Europe.
By virtue of the fact that they combine in complex ways local,
national, regional, and global dynamics and actors, processes of
security commercialization in the former Eastern bloc can be seen
as instances of 'glocalization'. Several aspects of security
commercialization are particularly important. To begin with,
private actors -specifically private security companies (PSCs)-
have been reconstituted as partial agents of public power. As such,
they have come to be systematically involved in performing security
practices traditionally associated with the state. In addition, a
potent commercial logic has come to permeate public security
institutions. This has led to redefinition of the relationship
between the state and its population in ways that defy conventional
wisdom about the role of the state, and pose difficult normative
challenges. More broadly, processes of security commercialization
in Eastern Europe, which involve important performative dimensions,
have led to the emergence of complex, hybrid networks of security
providers that transcend domestic/international, public/private
boundaries and behave, in many ways, as entrepreneurs.
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