Security Entrepreneurs: Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe

ISBN-13: 9780198813064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Alexandra Gheciu

Opis

This book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes, and focuses on four East European polities - Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania.

Recenzje

This book should be considered as required reading for any serious, advanced scholar who seeks to broaden their theoretical and empirical understanding of private security providers. Scott Fitzsimmons, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Limerick

O autorze

Alexandra Gheciu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Associate Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa. Her publications include The Oxford Handbook of International Security (co-edited with William Wohlforth, OUP, forthcoming), The Return of the Public in Global Governance (co-edited with Jacqueline Best, Cambridge University Press, 2014), Securing Civilization? The EU, NATO and the OSCE in the Post-9/11 World (OUP, 2008), and NATO in the 'New Europe': The Politics of International Socialization After the Cold War (Stanford University Press, 2005).