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Between Security Markets and Protection Rackets: Formations of Political Order - Softcover

Von Boemcken, Dr. Marc

 
9783863880309: Between Security Markets and Protection Rackets: Formations of Political Order

Synopsis

Security is a social practice, which constitutes different formations of political order. Developing a political economy of security practice, the author distinguishes these formations with a view to the actual exchanges between various providers and receivers of security services. He thus departs from a popular perspective in political science, which charts ongoing transformations in the global security landscape along a series of categorical divisions between state and non-state or between the public and the private. A more rewarding analytical perspective conceives the two most dominant security formations in the contemporary world as either based on commercial or on compulsory relations.

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