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Private Security and Identity Politics

Ethical Hero Warriors, Professional Managers and New Humanitarians

By: Jutta Joachim,Andrea Schneiker

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Private Security and Identity Politics

Ethical Hero Warriors, Professional Managers and New Humanitarians

By: Jutta Joachim,Andrea Schneiker

This book examines the self-representation and identity politics of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs). PMSCs have become increasingly important over the past few decades. While their boom is frequently explained in functional terms, such as their cost-efficiency and effectiveness, this book offers an alternative explanation based on an analysis of the online self-presentations of forty-two US- and UK-based companies. PMSCs are shaping how they are perceived and establishing themselves as acceptable and legitimate security actors by eclectically appropriating identities more commonly associated with the military, businesses and humanitarian actors. Depending on their audience and clients’ needs, they can be professional hero warriors, or promise turn-key security solutions based on their exceptional expertise, or, in a similar way to humanitarians, reassure those in need of relief and try to make the world a better place. Rather than being merely public relations, the self-referential assertions of PMSCs are political. Not only do they contribute to a normalization of private security and reinforce an already ongoing blurring of lines between the public and private sectors, they also change what we deem to be ‘security’ and a ‘security actor’. This book will be of much interest to students of private military companies, critical security studies, military studies, security studies and IR.

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1317268555

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Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Epistemic Communities and Security Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

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Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Epistemic Communities and Security Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

Increasingly humanitarian NGOs operate in the context of armed conflicts where the security risks are higher than in contexts of natural disaster. Working in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is particularly dangerous for humanitarians. This existential threat affects the physical existence of aid workers and the implementation of humanitarian programs, and the core beliefs of humanitarians and the underlying principles of humanitarian action. For NGOs it is difficult to accept that they are attacked despite their good intentions, sometimes even by the very communities they seek to help. For these reasons, humanitarian NGOs have to change their approaches to security by not only adapting their policies, procedures and structures to the changing environment, but also reviewing the underlying principles of their work. This book contributes to debates by demonstrating how issues of (in)security affect humanitarian NGOs and the humanitarian identity, situating the structural changes within the humanitarian NGO community in the context of conflict aid governance and explains how non-state actors establish their own governance structures, independent from state-sponsored solutions, and contributes to the emerging literature on the redefinition of the concept of epistemic communities.

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1317119533

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The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence

Feminists Engaging the State in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Andrea Krizsán,Conny Roggeband

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The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence

Feminists Engaging the State in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Andrea Krizsán,Conny Roggeband

What are the factors that shape domestic violence policy change and how are variable gendered meanings produced in these policies? How and when can feminists influence policy making? What conditions and policy mechanisms lead to progressive change and which ones block it or lead to reversal? The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence analyzes the emergence of gender equality sensitive domestic violence policy reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Tracing policy developments in Eastern Europe from the beginning of 2000s, when domestic violence first emerged on policy agendas, until 2015, Andrea Krizsán and Conny Roggeband look into the contestation that takes place between women’s movements, states and actors opposing gender equality to explain the differences in gender equality sensitive policy outputs across the region. They point to regionally specific patterns of feminist engagement with the state in which coalition-building between women’s organizations and establishing alliances with different state actors were critical for achieving gendered policy progress. In addition, they demonstrate how discursive contexts shaped by democratization frames and opposition to gender equality, led to differences in the politicization of gender equality, making gender friendly reforms more feasible in some countries than others.

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1317212487

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Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Epistemic Communities and Security Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

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Epistemic Communities and Security Governance

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Private Security and Identity Politics

Ethical Hero Warriors, Professional Managers and New Humanitarians

By: Jutta Joachim,Andrea Schneiker

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Ethical Hero Warriors, Professional Managers and New Humanitarians

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Humanitarian Ngo's (in-)Security and Identity Epistemic Communities and Conflict Aid Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

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Humanitarian Ngo's (in-)Security and Identity Epistemic Communities and Conflict Aid Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

Increasingly humanitarian NGOs operate in the context of armed conflicts where the security risks are higher than in contexts of natural disaster. For NGOs it is difficult to accept that they are attacked despite their good intentions, sometimes even by the very communities they seek to help. As such, humanitarian NGOs have to change their approaches to security by not only adapting their policies, procedures and structures to the changing environment, but also review the underlying principles of their work. This book contributes to debates by demonstrating how issues of (in-)security affect humanitarian NGOs and the humanitarian identity, situating the structural changes within the humanitarian NGO community in the context of conflict aid governance and explains how non-state actors establish their own governance structures, independent from state-sponsored solutions, and contributes to the emerging literature on the redefinition of the concept of epistemic communities.

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Lund Humphries Publishers

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1472438086

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Private Security and Identity Politics

Private Security and Identity Politics

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence

The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Private Security and Identity Politics

Private Security and Identity Politics

Humanitarian Ngo's (in-)Security and Identity Epistemic Communities and Conflict Aid Governance

Humanitarian Ngo's (in-)Security and Identity Epistemic Communities and Conflict Aid Governance

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