Private security companies in the Czech Republic: Rearticulating the security field and transforming politics

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Private security companies in the Czech Republic: Rearticulating the security field and transforming politics

Original language description

This article examines the impact of the practices of private security companies (PSCs) upon the fields of security and politics in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the scandalous case of the largest Czech private security company, Agency of the White Lion (ABL)/Mark2 Corporation (M2.C), whose founder attempted to create a business-firm-party by performing a hostile takeover of an existing minor political party. By applying the global security assemblages model and drawing on the recent literature on the commodification of security, this article situates the case of ABL/M2.C within the larger socio-political-legal-economic context of the booming private security industry, whose extensive linkages with Czech politics are best characterized as a reverserevolving door phenomenon. This phenomenon in turn suggests a possibility that the continuing absence of specific legislation to regulate the activities of PSCs is due to too much, rather than too little, political interest in the activit

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP408%2F11%2F0395" target="_blank" >GAP408/11/0395: Privatization of Security: Role of Private Sector Actors in Countering Contemporary Security Threats</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Security Dialogue

ISSN

0967-0106

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Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NO - NORWAY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

81-98

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