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This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security
concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal
security. Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take
similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens.
This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of
'societal security', and its broadly equivalent concepts, in
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The notion of societal
security is deconstructed and analysed in terms of its different
meanings and implications for each country, through both country-
and issue-focused studies. Each chapter traces the evolution of key
security concepts and related practices, allowing for a comparison
of similarities and differences between these four countries. Using
discourses and practices as evidence, this is the first book to
explore how different Nordic nations have conceptualised domestic
security over time. The findings will be valuable to scholars from
across the geographical and theoretical spectrum, while
highlighting how Nordic security discourses and practices may
deviate from traditional assumptions about Nordic values. This book
will be of much interest to students of security studies, Nordic
politics and International Relations. The Open Access version of
this book, available at
https://www.routledge.com/Nordic-Societal-Security-Convergence-and-Divergence/Larsson-Rhinard/p/book/9780367492922,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in
contemporary times. In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose
aim has largely been to improve the performance of national
security services and assist in policy making, this book takes the
investigation of the new professionals and everyday practices of
intelligence as the immediate point of departure. Starting from the
observation that intelligence today is increasingly about
counter-terrorism, crime control, surveillance, and other
security-related issues, this book adopts a transdisciplinary
approach for studying the shifting logics of intelligence, how it
has come to involve an expanding number of empirical sites, such as
the police, local community, prison and the Internet, as well as a
corresponding multiplicity of new actors in these domains. Shifting
the focus away from traditional spies and Anglo-American
intelligence services, this book addresses the transformations of
contemporary intelligence through empirically detailed and
theoretically innovative analyses, making a key contribution to
existing scholarship. This book will be of much interest to
students of intelligence studies, critical security studies,
foreign policy, and International Relations.
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