Emerging trends in transnational security: from the rise of non-state actors to force privatization.

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Emerging trends in transnational security: from the rise of non-state actors to force privatization.

Beyond the militarist approach: a new challenge for Mali

Violence & Security T.notes

Current peacebuilding approaches focused on state-building and militarization have led to poor security outputs, neither addressing national tensions nor fighting ethnic narratives of conflict.

Jul 25, 2018

Security privatisation at sea: Piracy and the commercialisation of vessel protection

Violence & Security Research & Policy Papers

This article conducts a congruence testing of the main theoretical explanations for the use of PSCs on land against UK, Dutch and Italian vessel protection policies.

Jun 18, 2018

Street gangs as a form of glocal radicalization

Violence & Security T.notes

Gangs are in all respects one of the forms assumed by the growing clustering of the criminal industry, in a market of illegal goods and services that is becoming ever more complex and globalized, and completely immune to the cyclical downturn in demand.

Jun 13, 2018

The specter of MS-13: Understanding fears and perceptions of belonging among diaspora Salvadorans

Violence & Security T.notes

Misunderstanding the adaptive nature of gangs like MS-13 results in policies which amplify violence and alienation in immigrant enclaves.

Jun 13, 2018

War By Another Name? The ‘Urban Turn’ in 21st Century Violence

Violence & Security T.notes

In the early twenty-first century, as inter-state war appeared to decline in frequency, new forms and discourses of ‘war’ took prominence, epitomised by the ‘War on Terror’ and the ‘War on Drugs.’ For some critics, the use of the term ‘war’ in these contexts was deeply problematic.

Apr 23, 2018
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