This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental sectors. The authors are concerned not simply with the influence of risk-based thinking in the area of security, but seek rather to map the mentalities and practices of security found in a variety of sectors, and to understand the ways in which thinking from these sectors influence one another. Their particular concern is to understand the drivers of innovation in the governance of security, the conditions that make innovation possible and the ways in which innovation is imagined and realised by actors from a wide range of sectors.
The book has two key themes: first, governance is now no longer simply shaped by thinking within the state sphere, for thinking originating within the business and community spheres now also shapes governance, and influence one another. Secondly, these developments have implications for the future of democratic values as assumptions about the traditional role of government are increasingly challenged.
The first five chapters of the book explore what has happened to the governance of security, through an analysis of the drivers, conditions and processes of innovation in the context of particular empirical developments. Particular reference is made here to 'waves of change' in security within the Ontario Provincial Police in Canada. In the final chapter the authors examine the implications of 'nodal governance' for democratic values, and then suggest normative directions for deepening democracy in these new circumstances.
cutting-edge analysis of the nature of thinking of security and its wider implications
leading scholars in the field
widespread international interest in this issue
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Imagining security
Imagining governance
Governance through force
Governing through enrolment
1 From state to nodal governance
Introduction
Transformations in state governance
Governing through others: enrolment and alignment
Private governments
Nodal governance
Conclusion
2 Community security and local governance: waves in public policing
Introduction
The place of the police
Waves in public policing
Policing as community-based
Policing as solving problems
The influence of neo-liberalism
Policing as restorative justice
Policing as fixing broken windows
Policing as intelligence work
Policing as reassurance
Conclusion
3 Human security and global governance
Introduction
Imagining human security
Threats to human security
Strategies of human security governance
Fighting crime and terror
Protecting people in zones of conflict
Protecting human rights
Building peace
Developing communities and societies
The state security/human security nexus
Conclusion
4 Responding to governance deficits
Introduction
Methods of power
Concentrate power nodally and use it to steer governance
Recognize and use all your power resources
Focus on nodes where one can be creative and assertive
Concentrate knowledge at nodes
Locate resources at nodes
Promote deliberative processes within nodes
Democracy in nodal governance
Conclusion
5 The governance of governance
Introduction
Hybridity in state governance: the case of public policing
Legal accountability
Political accountability
The new regulatory state or regulatory capitalism
Thinking like a business
Hybridity in decentred governance: private policing and beyond
Nodal governance for the future
Conclusion
Conclusion
Explanatory themes
Normative themes
Bibliography
Legislation
Legal cases
Index
