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100	1		_aABRAHAMSEN Rita, _y1966-
245			_aSecurity beyond the state : _bprivate security in international politics / _cRita Abrahamsen
260			_aCambridge ; New York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_aviii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization and late modernity, along with insights from criminology, political science and sociology, Security beyond the State maps the emergence of the global private security sector and develops a novel analytical framework for understanding these global security assemblages. Through in-depth examinations of four African countries - Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa - it demonstrates how global security assemblages effect the distribution of social power, the dynamics of state stability, and the operations of the international political economy, with significant implications for who gets secured and how in a global era"--
650			_aSECURITY, INTERNATIONAL
650			_aPRIVATE SECURITY SERVICES
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