PRIO New Security Studies
About the Book Series
The aim of this book series is to gather state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research into a core set of volumes that respond vigorously and dynamically to new challenges to security studies scholarship. This series is now being published under the title Routledge New Security Studies.
Citizenship and Security: The Constitution of Political Being
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Guillaume, Jef Huysmans
July 15, 2013
This book engages the intense relationship between citizenship and security in modern politics. It focuses on questions of citizenship in security analysis in order to critically evaluate how political being is and can be constituted in relation to securitising practices. In light of contemporary ...
Securitization, Accountability and Risk Management: Transforming the Public Security Domain
1st Edition
Edited
By Karin Svedberg Helgesson, Ulrika Mörth
May 31, 2013
This edited volume examines the reconstitution of the public security domain since the 9/11 attacks, focusing on the banking sector and anti-money laundering (AML) activity in particular. Since the inception of the ‘Financial Action Taskforce’ (FATF) in 1989, AML has been viewed as a global problem...
Commercialising Security in Europe: Political Consequences for Peace Operations
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Leander
February 22, 2013
This book examines the political consequences of European security commercialisation through increased reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs). The role of commercial security in the domestic setting in Europe is widely acknowledged; after all, the biggest private security ...
Security, the Environment and Emancipation: Contestation over Environmental Change
1st Edition
By Matt McDonald
August 24, 2011
This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a ...
Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown
1st Edition
By Claudia Aradau, Rens van Munster
April 17, 2012
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events – such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics – which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a ...
Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chandler, Nik Hynek
March 21, 2012
This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR. The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of ...
Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State
1st Edition
Edited
By Miguel de Larrinaga, Marc G. Doucet
October 12, 2011
This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two. The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society allows us to consider the connection of two ...
The Ethical Subject of Security: Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe
1st Edition
By J. Peter Burgess
February 07, 2011
While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place. First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security and ...
Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing Borders and Bodies
1st Edition
By Benjamin Muller
February 28, 2011
This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has ...
Feminist Security Studies: A Narrative Approach
1st Edition
By Annick T. R. Wibben
December 15, 2010
This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies. The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and other...
Securitization Theory: How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
1st Edition
Edited
By Thierry Balzacq
August 09, 2010
This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book ...
The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Francois Debrix, Mark Lacy
November 27, 2009
This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony America...