Published February 27th 2009 by Routledge – 212 pages
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This new book shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically.
It focuses on the theme of protection. It moves away from the dominant question of whom or what is threatening to the crucial questions of who is to be protected, and in the case of conflicting claims, who has the capacity to define whose needs prevail.
It also poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the contemporary world. The authors identify and explore issues that challenge or raise a number of questions about the traditional notion that states are to protect their citizens through retaining a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence.
'This collection of essays provides a meeting point for theorists and practitioners to discuss the current controversies surrounding security and protection.'
- Alistair D. B. Cook , The University of Melbourne
Preface
Chapter 1. Agency and The Politics of Protection: Implications for Security Studies
Jef Huysmans
Chapter 2. Privatizing the Politics of Protection: Military Companies and the Definition of Security Concerns
Anna Leander Chapter 3. Privatisation, Globalisation, and the Politics of Protection in South Africa
Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams
Chapter 4. Taking Rights, Mediating Wrongs: Disagreements over the Political Agency of Non-Status Refugees.
Peter Nyers
Chapter 5. Resisting Sovereign Power: Camps In-between Exception and Dissent.
Raffaela Puggioni
Chapter 6. Protection: security, territory and population.
Didier Bigo
Chapter 7. "Civilizing" the Balkans, Protecting Europe: the International Politics of Reconstruction in Bosnia and Kosovo
Alexandra Gheciu
Chapter 8. The Judicialisation of Armed Conflict: transforming the 21st Century
Elspeth Guild
Chapter 9. The Limits of Agency in Times of Emergency
Vivienne Jabri Chapter 10. Sovereignty, International Security and the Regulation of Armed Conflict: the Possibilities of Political Agency
Neil Walker
Chapter 11. Do we need (to protect) nature?
Andrew Dobson
Chapter 12. On the Protection of Nature and the Nature of Protection
R.B.J. Walker
Jef Huysmans is Lecturer in Government and Politics at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Andrew Dobson is Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Politics and Government at The Open University. Raia Prokhovnik is Senior Lecturer in Government and Politics, also at The Open University.
Name: The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, Raia Prokhovnik. This new book shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically.
It focuses on the theme of protection. It moves away from the dominant question of whom or what is threatening to...
Categories: Politics & International Relations, Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns, Peace Studies
