Security Beyond the State

by Rita Abrahamsen, Michael C. Williams, Michael C. Williams

Book Overview

Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization and late modernity, along with insights from criminology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521154251
• ISBN13: 9780521154253
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"