The Struggle Over Security

Why Transnational Reforms Persist Despite Failure in Post-War Guatemala
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5680-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

Based on over a decade of research across Central America, the United States, Israel, and Spain, The Struggle over Security analyzes Guatemala’s security governance reforms following the end of its civil war in 1996. Drawing on in-depth interviews with police and military officers, policymakers, and security advisers, it shows that, in the aftermath of war, a transnational security reform field emerged.

The book argues that the competing politicians, bureaucrats, and experts have entrenched a security reform process that perpetuates failure in post-war Guatemala, leaving citizens exposed to violence and security institutions persistently fragile.

Challenging the very logic of security reform, the book invites scholars and practitioners to radically rethink security governance in the Global South.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hochmüller, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. In the Aftermath of Violence: The Emergence of the Security Reform Field and the Making of a New Police

3. Challenging the Old Guard: Security as Science and Development

4. Countering Gangs and the Shadows of a Violent Past: The Field in Crisis and the Rise of the Heretics

5. Going Local: Prevention and the Re-Engineering of Communities

6. Protecting Privilege: Entrepreneurial Reformers and Security as Corporate Social Responsibility

7. Unlearning Reform: The Futures of Security Governance

Über Autor(innen)

Markus Hochmüller is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.