The Politics of Protection Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency (The New International Relations)

225 Pages·2006·0.98 MB·English

by  Jef Huysmans

The Politics of Protection
Following the end of the Cold War,the security agenda has been transformed and
redefined, both academically and politically. This book focuses on the theme of
protection and explores different ways in which political agency emerges in the
regulation and definition of protection and insecurity.
The contributors to this timely volume pose these significant questions,relating
them to the key issues of protection and the governance of insecurity in the
contemporary world. For instance, who represents those who are threatened?
Who can legitimately give voice to needs for protection? From where do they
derive their capacity to speak authoritatively about a need for protection? Who
is not regarded as a legitimate agent and how do they speak politically? How
is the capacity to claim protection and contest insecurity pre-structured by
institutionalised procedures? More specifically,the contributors examine:
● The role of private security companies
● The political agency of refugees
● The role of non-military security actors
● The reconstruction of state capacity in post-conflict situations
● The political role of the judiciary and the judicial regulation of armed conflict
● The changing relation between humanity and nature in environmental politics.
Combining political theory and empirical case studies, this book makes a
significant contribution to the study of international relations and security studies.
Jef Huysmans is Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open
University,Milton Keynes,UK.
Andrew Dobson is Professor at the Department of Politics and International
Studies at The Open University.
Raia Prokhovnikis Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies,also
at The Open University.
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The Politics of Protection
Sites of insecurity and political agency
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Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson
and Raia Prokhovnik
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Contents
Notes on contributors ix
Preface xii
1 Agency and the politics of protection:
implications for security studies 1
JEF HUYSMANS
2 Privatizing the politics of protection:military
companies and the definition of security concerns 19
ANNA LEANDER
3 Privatisation,globalisation,and the politics of
protection in South Africa 34
RITA ABRAHAMSEN AND MICHAEL C. WILLIAMS
4 Taking rights,mediating wrongs:disagreements
over the political agency of non-status refugees 48
PETER NYERS
5 Resisting sovereign power:camps in-between
exception and dissent 68
RAFFAELA PUGGIONI
6 Protection:security,territory and population 84
DIDIER BIGO
7 ‘Civilizing’the Balkans,protecting Europe:
the international politics of reconstruction in
Bosnia and Kosovo 101
ALEXANDRA GHECIU
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8 The judicialisation of armed conflict:
transforming the twenty-first century 122
ELSPETH GUILD
9 The limits of agency in times of emergency 136
VIVIENNE JABRI
10 Sovereignty,international security and the
regulation of armed conflict:the possibilities
of political agency 154
NEIL WALKER
11 Do we need (to protect) nature? 175
ANDREW DOBSON
12 On the protection of nature and the
nature of protection 189
R.B.J. WALKER
Index 203
Contributors
Rita Abrahamsen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International
Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is the author of Disciplining
Democracy. Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa (Zed Books, 2000).
Her current research focuses on the globalisation of private security.
Didier Bigo is Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po Paris,
Associated Researcher at CERI/FNSP and Director of the Center for the
Study of Conflict.He is editor of the quarterly journal Cultures & Conflitsand
the scientific coordinator of the Framework 5 programme of the EC
Commission ELISE (European Liberty and Security) and of the Framework 6
programme CHALLENGE. Among his recent publications in English is:
Didier Bigo and Elspeth Guild (eds) Controlling frontiers: free movement into and
within Europe,Aldershot,Ashgate,2005.
Andrew Dobsonis Professor of Politics at the Open University,UK.He is an
environmental political theorist,and among his publications are:Green Political
Thought (3rd edition, Routledge, 2000), Justice and the Environment (Oxford
University Press, 1998) and Citizenship and the Environment (Oxford University
Press, 2003). He is Chair of the editorial board of the journal Environmental
Politics.
Alexandra Gheciu is a Research Associate in International Relations,
Department of Politics and International Relations (Leverhulme Programme
on the Changing Character of War), and a Research Fellow of Somerville
College,Oxford University.Her research interests include international secu-
rity, with a special focus on international security institutions; the politics of
international socialisation;and IR theory.Recent publications include:NATO
in the ‘New Europe’(Stanford University Press,2005) and International Institutions
as Agents of Socialization? Vol. 59, Special Issue, Fall 2005, pp. 973–1012 in
International Organization.
Elspeth Guild is Professor of European Migration Law at the Radboud
University, Nijmegen, Netherlands and partner at Kingsley Napley solicitors,
London,UK.She has published widely in the field of EU law and migration
including the consequences of refugee movements and national conflict.Sheis
participating, for her university, in two European Commission Framework