Security beyond the State: private security in international politics

摘要

This is an important new book on the globalisation of private security and its implications for politics and international relations theory. The authors start by questioning Weber's premise that the state maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, as a result of globalisation. They use the private security industry as a lens to interrogate the ways in which sovereignty and power are being restructured and respatialised under, and are constitutive of, globalisation.