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Author Gheciu, Alexandra, author

Title Security entrepreneurs : performing protection in post-cold war europe / Alexandra Gheciu
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Contents Cover; Security Entrepreneurs: Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1: The Reconstitution of Security Provision after the Cold War; Toward New Forms of Public Power in Post-Communist Europe; Thinking about Security Commercialization from Different Perspectives; Performing Protection in Post-Communist Europe; Overview of the Book; Notes; 2: The State-Market-Crime Nexus in the Early Days of Post-Communism; Paradoxes of Liberalization in Eastern Europe; Reproducing Old Ways of Doing Things in the New Age of Liberalism
The Old Nomenclature as EntrepreneursTransforming Security Provision after the Yugoslav Conflicts; The Dynamics of Illicit Internationalization in the First Years of Transition; Notes; 3: Toward a New Political Economy of Security Provision: The Impact of Europeanization and Globalization; Returning to Europe, (Re)constituting the Field of Security; Seeking to "Normalize" the Western Balkans after the Yugoslav Conflicts; Transnational Mobilization in the Context of European Integration; Notes; 4: Contestation, Cooperation, and Competition in (Re)Defining European Security
The Struggle to (Re)constitute the European Field of SecurityGatekeeping and Social Capital in the Private Security Industry; Contesting the Meaning of Harmonization in European Security; Changing the Rules of the Game in Public Procurement in Europe; Notes; 5: Between the Old and the New: Contemporary Dynamics of (In)Security in Eastern Europe; Toward New Public-Private Partnerships in Security Provision; PSCs' Campaigns to Contest "the Rules of the Game" in the Twenty-First Century; Old Habits Die Hard: Competing Logics of Security Provision in Eastern Europe; Notes
6: Normative Dilemmas and Challenges of Security CommercializationAccountable Security Providers?; Redefining the Relationship between the State and Civil Society; The Illicit Security Professionals: The Dark Side of Europeanization and Globalization; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 16, 2018)
Subject Private security services -- Europe, Eastern
National security -- Former Soviet republics
Private military companies -- Former Soviet republics
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Private security services
National security
Private military companies
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192542434
0192542435
9780191851056
0191851051