Security entrepreneurs : performing protection in post-cold war europe /
Alexandra Gheciu.
- First edition.
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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'.
9780192542434 9780191851056
Private security services--Europe, Eastern. National security--Former Soviet republics. Private military companies--Former Soviet republics.