Public/private, global/local: The changing contours of Africa's security governance

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 35, Issue 118, 2008, Pages 539-553

  Abrahamsen, Rita ^a   Williams, Michael C ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349137745     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: 17401720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056240802569219     Document Type: Editorial

References (45)

1. Abrahamsen, R. and Williams, M. C. (2007) Introduction: The Privatisation and Globalisation of Security in Africa. International Relations, 21:2, pp. 131-141.
2. Abrahamsen, R. and Williams, M. C. (2007) Securing the City: Private Security Companies and Non-State Authority in Global Governance. International Relations, 21:2, pp. 237-253.
3. Abrahamsen, R. and Williams, M. C. (2006) Privatisation, Globalisation and the Politics of Protection in South Africa. The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency, Routledge, London
4. Abrahamsen, R. and Williams, M. C. (2005) The Globalisation of Private Security, Country Report: Sierra Leone. Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth
5. Abrahamsen, R. and Williams, M. C. (2005) The Politics of Private Security in Kenya. Review of African Political Economy, 32, pp. 425-431.
6. Anderson, P. (1974) Lineages of the Absolutist State, Verso, London
7. Avant, D. (2005) The Market for Force, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
8. Avant, D. (2006) The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq. Orbis, 50:2
9. Beck, U. (1992) Risk Society. Towards a New Modernity, Sage, London
10. Caldeira, T. (2001) City of Walls: Crime, Segregation and Citizenship in Sao Paulo, University of California Press, Berkeley
11. Callaghy, T., Kassimir, R. and Latham, R. (2001) Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
12. Clayton, A. and D., Killingray (1989) Kaki and Blue. Military and Police in British Colonial Africa, Ohio University Press, Ohio
13. Cutler, C. A. (1997) Artifice, Ideology and Paradox: The Public/Private Distinction in International Law. Review of International Political Economy, 4:2, pp. 261-285.
14. Cutler, A. C., Haufler, V. and Porter, T. (1999) Private Authority and International Affairs, State University of New York Press, Albany
15. Davis, M. (1990) City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Verso, London
16. De Lange, D. (2008) Call for private security to fight crime. Cape Argus, 20
17. Garland, D. (2001) The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, Oxford University Press, Oxford
18. Gerth, H. H. and C., Wright Mills (1946) From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Oxford University Press, Oxford
19. Hall, R. B. and Bierstecker, T. (2002) The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
20. Hills, A. (2000) Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization, Lynne Reinner, Boulder
21. Johnston, L. (1992) The Rebirth of Private Policing, Routledge, London
22. Johnston, L. and Shearing, C. (2003) Governing Security, Routledge, London
23. Jones, T. and Newburn, T. (1998) Private Security and Public Policing, Clarendon Press, Oxford
24. Keku, P. and Akingbade, T. (2003) Industrial Security in Nigeria. Challenges and Prospects for the 21st Century, Lagos
25. Leander, A. and van Munster, R. (2007) Private Security Contractors in the Debate about Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-liberal Governmenality. International Relations, 21:2, pp. 201-216.
26. Lemanski, C. (2004) A New Apartheid? The Spatial Implications of Fear of Crime in Cape Town, South Africa. Environment & Urbanization, 16:2, pp. 101-111.
27. Lilly, D. (2000) The Privatization of Security and Peacebuilding: A Framework for Action, International Alert, London
28. Low, S. (2003) Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America, Routledge, New York
29. Mamdani, M. (1996) Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Princeton University Press, Princeton
30. Mancini, F. (2006) In Good Company: The Role of Business in Security Sector Reform, Demos, London
31. Musah, A-F. (2003) Africa: Private Military Intervention and Arms Proliferation in the Process of State Decay. State Failure, State Collapse, and State Reconstruction, Blackwell, Oxford
32. People's Daily Online (2007)
33. Polanyi, K. (1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Beacon Hill Press, Boston
34. PSIRA (2007) Annual Report 2006/2007.Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority, Pretoria
35. Reno, W. (1999) Warlord Politics and African States, Lynne Reinner, Boulder
36. Reno, W. (2001) How Sovereignty Matters: International Markets and the Political Economy of Local Politics in Weak States. Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
37. Risen, J. (2008) Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback. New York Times, 10
38. Sassen, S. (2006) Territory, Authority, Rights. From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton University Press, Princeton
39. Shearing, C. and Stenning, P. (1981) Modern private security: Its growth and implications. Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research, 3, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
40. Shearing, C. and Stenning, P. (1983) Private Security: Implications for Social Control. Social Problems, 30:5, pp. 498-505.
41. Singer, P. (2003) Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military, Cornell University Press, Ithaca
42. Taljaard, R. (2006) Implementing South Africa's Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act. Private Actors and Security Governance, LitVerlag, Berling
43. Thomson, J. (1994) Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns: State Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe, Princeton University Press, Princeton
44. Wairagu, F., Kamenju, J. and Shingo, M. (2004) Private Security in Kenya, Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC), Nairobi
45. Wood, E. M. (1981) The Separation of the Economic and Political in Capitalism. New Left Review, 127, pp. 66-95.