Books in the PRIO New Security Studies series

This book examines the political consequences of European security commercialisation through increased reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs).

This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony America has devised as a response to these new security threats.

This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts.

This book explores and maps the relationship between borders, security and global governance.

This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy-security trade-off, combining theoretical research with empirical research focusing on the citizen¿s perspective.

This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to engage in a dialogue on key developments in the study of security.

This book aims to address the issue of what the extent to which the 'logic of security', which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to explore the power, consequences and everyday practices of security expertise.

This book aims to address the issue of what the extent to which the 'logic of security', which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled.

This book explores and maps the relationship between borders, security and global governance.

How does the enactment of citizenship politicise securitised sites? Security practices define citizenship by constituting the frontiers, exclusion zones, and limits of the political community. Security and Citizenship argues that security/citizenship practices are simultaneously governmental practices that secures the status of citizens and the authority of political apparatuses, and also a resource of counter-practices contesting the depoliticising effects of securitising. Through citizenship, conceptions of security and their effects become politically negotiated and contested. By bringing citizenship questions to bear upon security analysis, the book takes a case study and comparative approach to critically interrogate how political being is and can be constituted in relation to securitising practices. Security and Citizenship will be of interest to scholars of security studies and security politics, and international relations.

This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts.

This book examines the political consequences of European security commercialisation through increased reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs).

Examines the global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two.

The field of critical security studies has revolutionized scholarship on security practice. Guided by securitization theory, this field has focused largely on the objective side of the security practice. This book questions the subject-position from which 'securitization' and other security practices takes place.

Presents critical perspectives towards Human Security, which has become one of the key discourses in Security Studies and IR.

Intends to provide a fresh framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. This book is suitable for students of securitisation and critical security studies, as well as IR theory and sociology.

Intends to provide a fresh framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve. This book is suitable for students of securitisation and critical security studies, as well as IR theory and sociology.

Intends to rethink security theory from a feminist perspective, illustrating what feminist security concerns are, why they remain outside the purview of security studies, and what can be done to address them more successfully through the development of a comprehensive theoretical framework.

Provides an introduction to the biopolitics of security in the 21st century, written by one of the leading scholars in the field.