Security entrepreneurs : performing protection in post-Cold War Europe / Alexandra Gheciu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gheciu, Alexandra, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private security services--Europe, Eastern.

Private security services.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

vi, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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'.

Contents:

1 The Reconstitution of Security Provision after the Cold War p. 1

2 The State-Market-Crime Nexus in the Early Days of Post-Communism p. 30

3 Toward a New Political Economy of Security Provision: The Impact of Europeanization and Globalization p. 65

4 Contestation, Cooperation, and Competition in (Re)Defining European Security p. 98

5 Between the Old and the New: Contemporary Dynamics of (In)Security in Eastern Europe p. 122

6 Normative Dilemmas and Challenges of Security Commercialization p. 160.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0198813066

9780198813064

OCLC:

1007747578