Corporate Risk and National Security Redefined

ISBN-13: 9780415579995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 176 str.

Karen Lund Petersen

Opis

Situated within the debate on terrorism risk and security, this book investigates the role of private companies in counter-terrorism policies. With case studies on airports, airlines, ports and food production companies it challenges the modern understandings of national security and corporate risk.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Risk Studies: Defining a Place for Politics?  3. Studying Concepts of Risk and Security  4. Counterterrorism in Denmark: A Welfare State Approach to Private Security?  5. Counterterrorism in the United States: A Liberal Approach to Counterterrorism?  6. Conclusions: Political and Private Responsibility and Authority Redefined

O autorze

Karen Lund Petersen isResearcher and Deputy Directorat the Centre for Advanced Security Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.