Case Studies

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by Mark Rowe

Click on the Routledge website for background details of the publisher’s Handbook of Private Security, pictured. It’s among the books featured on the review page of the January 2016 print issue of Professional Security magazine.

The book’s editors, Rita Abrahamsen and Anna Leander, say: “The book is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, including international relations, politics, sociology, criminology, history, as well as geography, anthropology, cultural studies and law. What we are trying to do is to showcase the diversity of issues arising from security privatization, to expand the conversation between scholars working on this topic. In fact, we suggest that we might be seeing the emergence of a new field of study, which we cautiously label Private Security Studies.”

Contents

PART I: Historical Perspectives on Private Security 1. Private Force and State-building, c. 1100-1500, Benjamin de Carvalho 2. The ‘Private’ Origin of Modern ‘Public’ Policing, Michael Kempa 3. Private Force and the Emergence of the International System, Halvard Leira 4. Company Sovereigns, Private Violence and Colonialism, Andrew Phillips PART II: The Place of the Private in Contemporary Security 5. Private Security Guards: Authority, Control and Governance?, Maria Stern and Joakim Berndtsson 6. PMSCs in Maritime Security and Anti-Piracy Control, Carolin Liss 7. Privatizing Military Logistics, Mark Erbel and Chris Kinsey 8. Privatizing Intelligence, Hamilton Bean 9. Cyber-Security and Private Actors, Myriam Dunn Cavelty 10. Private Eyes: Private Policing and Surveillance, Kevin Haggerty and Ajay Sandhu 11. Enduring Challenges of Security Privatization in the Humanitarian Space, Christopher Spearin 12. PMSCs in International Security Sector Reform PART III: Debates about Private Security 13. Global Security Assemblages, Michael C. Williams 14. The Privatization of Security: Implications for Democracy, Clifford Shearing and Philip Stenning 15. Military Migrants and Mercenary Markets, Vron Ware 16. PMSCs and Gender, Maya Eichler 17. Private Security’s Role in Shaping US Foreign Policy, Renee de Nevers 18. Postcoloniality and Race in Global Private Security Markets, Amanda Chrisholm 19. Security Fairs, Leila Stockmarr 20. The Privatization of Punishment in the United States, Shannon Wheatley Hartman and Roxanne Doty 21. The Migration Control Industry, Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen PART IV: The Regulation of Private Security 22. Norms and Regulation, Sarah Percy 23. The Extension of International Human Rights Law to Private Military and Security Companies, Anton Katz and Margaret Maffai 24. The Legal Framework for the Armed Forces and the Regulation of Private Security, Mirko Sossai 25. Regulation through Procurement Policies, Elke Krahmann 26. Transnational Businnes Governance through Standards and Codes of Conduct, Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt

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