1st Edition

The Politics of Protection Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency

Edited By Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, Raia Prokhovnik Copyright 2006
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    This new book shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically.

    It focuses on the theme of protection. It moves away from the dominant question of whom or what is threatening to the crucial questions of who is to be protected, and in the case of conflicting claims, who has the capacity to define whose needs prevail.

    It also poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the contemporary world. The authors identify and explore issues that challenge or raise a number of questions about the traditional notion that states are to protect their citizens through retaining a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence.

    Preface

    Chapter 1. Agency and The Politics of Protection: Implications for Security Studies

    Jef Huysmans

    Chapter 2. Privatizing the Politics of Protection: Military Companies and the Definition of Security Concerns

    Anna Leander

    Chapter 3. Privatisation, Globalisation, and the Politics of Protection in South Africa

    Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams

    Chapter 4. Taking Rights, Mediating Wrongs: Disagreements over the Political Agency of Non-Status Refugees.

    Peter Nyers

    Chapter 5. Resisting Sovereign Power: Camps In-between Exception and Dissent.

    Raffaela Puggioni

    Chapter 6. Protection: security, territory and population.

    Didier Bigo

    Chapter 7. "Civilizing" the Balkans, Protecting Europe: the International Politics of Reconstruction in Bosnia and Kosovo

    Alexandra Gheciu

    Chapter 8. The Judicialisation of Armed Conflict: transforming the 21st Century

    Elspeth Guild

    Chapter 9. The Limits of Agency in Times of Emergency

    Vivienne Jabri

    Chapter 10. Sovereignty, International Security and the Regulation of Armed Conflict: the Possibilities of Political Agency

    Neil Walker

    Chapter 11. Do we need (to protect) nature?

    Andrew Dobson

    Chapter 12. On the Protection of Nature and the Nature of Protection

    R.B.J. Walker

    Biography

    Jef Huysmans is Lecturer in Government and Politics at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Andrew Dobson is Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Politics and Government at The Open University. Raia Prokhovnik is Senior Lecturer in Government and Politics, also at The Open University.

    'This collection of essays provides a meeting point for theorists and practitioners to discuss the current controversies surrounding security and protection.'

    - Alistair D. B. Cook , The University of Melbourne