Securing Sovereignty by Governing Security through Markets

Leander, Anna

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“…In finance, this has meant the increased integration of private sector advocacy associations in the design of regulatory regimes (see Tsingou, 2009;Baker, 2010;Young, 2012). In security, the use of private sector actors has similarly increased, as private firms now take on many critical functions of security provision --everything from basic administrative functions to logistics to the widespread use of private security companies to carry out combat operations (Leander, 2005(Leander, , 2009Percy, 2007). As military operations are often conducted with and/or by private companies there has been a commercialization and globalization of organized violence.…”

Section: Interrelationships Between Security and Financementioning

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Global governance in crisis? Fragmentation, risk and world order

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Young

2013

Int Polit

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This paper examines some of the similarities between finance and security from a global governance perspective. We argue that finance and security share a number of similar properties in terms of prevailing arrangements at the level of global governance, and also a number of problems which we conceptualize as problems of governance capacity. Such similarities, we argue, are not unique to these domains but actually tell us something about the character of global governance as a whole. In so doing, we argue that the evolution in thinking about governance challenges and the institutional solutions required to meet them further underscores an already pernicious dynamic at work in global governance.

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Section: Interrelationships Between Security and Financementioning

confidence: 99%

Global governance in crisis? Fragmentation, risk and world order

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Young

2013

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“…Additionally, the redrawing of public–private distinctions occurs through the workings of different (security) rationalities (Leander 2007; Abrahamsen and Williams 2011). Indeed, different modes of governance inform the ways in which the public–private divides are being recast and reassembled.…”

Section: Private Security and The Public–private Dividementioning

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“…Indeed, different modes of governance inform the ways in which the public–private divides are being recast and reassembled. Leander explains that the logic and politics of security production must also be seen in light of how “the coexistence of neo‐liberal and sovereign forms of governance function in the field of security” (Leander 2007:3; Salter 2007:54, 2009; Klauser, Ruegg, and November 2009). She further points out that PSCs also help—indeed are hired to—define security problems (Leander 2006).…”

Section: Private Security and The Public–private Dividementioning

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Private Security and the Public-Private Divide: Contested Lines of Distinction and Modes of Governance in the Stockholm-Arlanda Security Assemblage1

Berndtsson

Stern

2011

International Political Sociology

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The increasing privatization of security and the changing patterns of security governance call into question the foundational lines of demarcation between the “public” and “private.” This article investigates how key actors in the security assemblage at Stockholm‐Arlanda Airport make sense of their roles in relation to public–private distinctions. While central to the ways in which security actors understand themselves and each other, closer inspection reveals that the drawing of these lines is also highly ambivalent and contested—in relation to questions of control and regulation, authority, as well as security rationalities. Further, “private–private” and “public–public” contestations also are informed by the obdurate public–private distinction.

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“…9 9 Bourdieu often referred to political science as the “science of de‐politicization” precisely because it hid politics from view by accepting a statist understanding of politics as its point of departure (Wacquant 2005). I have drawn on this insight repeatedly and perhaps most explicitly in an article where I argue that the public private divide is key to the power of commercial security (Leander 2011). …”

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The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations1

Leander

2011

International Political Sociology

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The promise of Bourdieu‐inspired analysts to provide a “different reading” of the international is receiving increasing attention in the academic discipline of international relations (IR). This attention also generates awareness and of problems inherent in the Bourdieuian approach and a desire to develop it further (or abandon it). These discussions have often focused on the difficulties that arise for IR as a consequence of the structuralism of Bourdieu’s approach, and as such they dovetail with the discussions between Bourdieu’s “critical sociology” and the “pragmatic school” in the French context. This article uses these discussions to clarify what it entails to paint a different picture—my picture—of the international using Bourdieu’s thinking tools. More specifically, it argues that Bourdieu’s thinking can be used as a basis for a non‐structuralist staging of the international taking on board the critique raised by pragmatists and integrating many of the insights developed by them. Bourdieu often referred to his own thinking as a “structuralist constructivism,” so this article takes Bourdieu’s thinking in a direction he may not have liked to go. However, it sticks closely to the spirit of his contention that one should never privilege scholastic theorizing for the sake of theorizing nor hesitate to “read a thinker against himself.”

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Securing Sovereignty by Governing Security through Markets

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Global governance in crisis? Fragmentation, risk and world order

Global governance in crisis? Fragmentation, risk and world order

Private Security and the Public-Private Divide: Contested Lines of Distinction and Modes of Governance in the Stockholm-Arlanda Security Assemblage1

The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations1

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