Contesting Security
Contesting Security investigates to what extent the "logic of security", which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled.
Featuring legitimacy as a cement of security practices, this volume presents a detailed account of the "logic" which sustains security in order to develop a novel approach to the relation between security and the policies in which it is engraved. Understanding security as a normative practice, the contributors suggest a nuanced, and richer take on the conditions under which it is possible, advisable or fair to accept or roll back its policies.
The book comprises four parts, each investigating one specific modality of contesting security practices: resistance, desecuritization, emancipation, and resilience. These strategies are examined, compared and assessed in different political and cultural habitats.
This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, securitization theory, social theory, and IR in general.
Thierry Balzacq is Scientific Director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) at the French Ministry of Defence and Tocqueville Professor of International Relations at the University of Namur, Belgium. He is also Honorary Professorial Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
PRIO New Security Studies
Series Editor: J. Peter Burgess, PRIO, Oslo
The aim of this book series is to gather state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research into a core set of volumes that respond vigorously and dynamically to the new challenges to security scholarship.
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Contesting Security
Strategies and logics
Edited by Thierry Balzacq
First published 2015
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Contesting security: strategies and logics / edited by Thierry Balzacq.
pages cm. - (PRIO new security studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Public safety - Social aspects. 2. Internal security - Social aspects.
3. National security - Social aspects. 4. Security, International - Social
aspects. I. Balzacq, Thierry, editor of compilation.
HV7431.C6678 2015
363.1-dc23 2014022757
ISBN: 978-0-415-64386-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-07985-0 (ebk)
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Mika Aaltola is the Director of the Global Security Research Program at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland.
Claudia Aradau is Reader in International Politics, the Department of War Studies at King's College London, UK.
Thierry Balzacq is Scientific Director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) at the French Ministry of Defense and Tocqueville Professor of International Relations at the University of Namur, Belgium.
Florent Blanc is a Program Manager for the Peace Program in Grenoble, France.
Philippe Bourbeau is Temporary University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Research Fellow in the Tocqueville Chair in Security Policies at the University of Namur, Belgium.
Sara Depauw is Research Fellow at the Flemish Peace Research Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Rita Floyd is Birmingham Fellow in Conflict and Security in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Lene Hansen is Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.