(Neo)republican security governance?: US homeland security and the politics of 'shared responsibility'

Karen Lund Petersen; Vibeke Schou Tjalve

doi:10.1111/ips.12006

(Neo)republican security governance? US homeland security and the politics of 'shared responsibility'

Karen Lund Petersen, Vibeke Schou Tjalve

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	International Political Sociology
Volume	7
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Number of pages	18
ISSN	1749-5679
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12006
Publication status	Published - Mar 2013

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