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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GAP408%2F11%2F0395" target="_blank" >GAP408/11/0395: Privatizace bezpečnosti: Role aktérů privátního sektoru v reakcích na současné bezpečnostní hrozby</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Security Dialogue

ISSN

0967-0106

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

45

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

NO - Norské království

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

81-98

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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