The privatization of security understood as both the top-down decision to outsource military and security-related tasks to private firms and the bottom-up activ

With the ever farther advancement of globalization, governance has become one of the most prominent theoretical concepts to describe today’s world. Governance

This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and securi

Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary

This book explores the unintended consequences of security governance actions and explores how their effects can be limited. Security governance describes new m