This book explores the unintended consequences of security
governance actions and explores how their effects can be
limited.
Security governance describes new modes of security policy that
differ from traditional approaches to national and international
security. While traditional security policy used to be the
exclusive domain of states and aimed at military defense, security
governance is performed by multiple actors and is intended to
create a global environment of security for states, social groups,
and individuals. By pooling the strength and expertise of states,
international organizations, and private actors, security
governance is seen to provide more effective and efficient means to
cope with today's security risks.
Generally, security governance is assumed to be a good thing,
and the most appropriate way of coping with contemporary security
problems. This assumption has led scholars to neglect an important
phenomenon: unintended consequences. While unintended consequences
do not need to be negative, often they are. The CIA term
"blowback," for example, refers to the phenomenon that a long
nurtured group may turn against its sponsor. The rise of al Qaeda,
which had benefited from US Cold War policies, is only one
example.
Raising awareness about unwanted and even paradoxical policy
outcomes and suggesting ways of avoiding damage or limiting their
scale, this book will be of much interest to students of security
governance, risk management, international security and IR.
Christopher Daase is Professor at the Goethe University
Frankfurt and head of the research department International
Organizations and International Law at the Peace Research Institute
Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK).
Cornelius Friesendorf is lecturer at the Goethe University
Frankfurt and research fellow at the Peace Research Institute
Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK).
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