TY - JOUR
T1 - (Neo)republican security governance?
T2 - US homeland security and the politics of 'shared responsibility'
AU - Petersen, Karen Lund
AU - Tjalve, Vibeke Schou
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - Written from a vantage point in between Security Studies, Political Theory, and Governance Studies, this article attempts to theorize the current mobilization of civil society for the purposes of "national security," "risk precaution," or "homeland resilience" as the emergence of a neo-republican form of security governance-a mode of governance more reliant on organicist means of social construction than on economic or individualist instruments of social control. We argue that if the discipline of International Relations (IR) wishes to understand the nature of this emerging security order, it needs to assume a more cross-disciplinary approach and to develop a much richer idea of republicanism as not only a political philosophy but also a practice of governance.
AB - Written from a vantage point in between Security Studies, Political Theory, and Governance Studies, this article attempts to theorize the current mobilization of civil society for the purposes of "national security," "risk precaution," or "homeland resilience" as the emergence of a neo-republican form of security governance-a mode of governance more reliant on organicist means of social construction than on economic or individualist instruments of social control. We argue that if the discipline of International Relations (IR) wishes to understand the nature of this emerging security order, it needs to assume a more cross-disciplinary approach and to develop a much richer idea of republicanism as not only a political philosophy but also a practice of governance.
U2 - 10.1111/ips.12006
DO - 10.1111/ips.12006
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1749-5679
VL - 7
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - International Political Sociology
JF - International Political Sociology
IS - 1
ER -