Security Expertise: Practice, Power, Responsibility

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Trine Villumsen Berling, Christian Bueger
Routledge, Apr 10, 2015 - Political Science - 266 pages

This volume brings together scholars from different fields to explore the power, consequences and everyday practices of security expertise.

Expertise mediates between different forms of knowledge: scientific and technological, legal, economic and political knowledge. This book offers the first systematic study of security expertise and opens up a productive dialogue between science and technology studies and security studies to investigate the character and consequences of this expertise. In security theory, the study of expertise is crucial to understanding whose knowledge informs security making and to reflect on the impact and responsibility of security analysis. In science and technology studies, the study of security politics adds a challenging new case to the agenda of research on expertise and policy. The contributors investigate cases such as academic security studies, security think tanks, the collaboration between science, anthropology and the military, transnational terrorism, and the ethical consequences of security expertise. Together they challenge our understanding of how expertise works and what consequences it has for security politics and international relations.

This book will be of particular interest to students of critical security studies, sociology, science and technology studies, and IR/security studies in general.

 

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Contents

List of figures
1963
What is expertise? Technical knowledge and political judgement
What is security expertise? From the sociology of professions to
In defence of security
The history and social structure of security studies as a practico
Think tanks in security and international affairs
experts and amateurs in
technical practices
how terrorism resists expertise
the characters of strategy experts
critical terrorism studies
Ethics expertise and human terrain
transparency and regulating
Index

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About the author (2015)

Trine Villumsen Berling is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of The International Political Sociology of Security (Routledge 2015).

Christian Bueger is Reader in international relations at Cardiff University, UK, and co-author of International Practice Theory: New Perspectives (2014, with Frank Gadinger).

Bibliographic information

TitleSecurity Expertise: Practice, Power, Responsibility
PRIO New Security Studies
EditorsTrine Villumsen Berling, Christian Bueger
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2015
ISBN1317593189, 9781317593188
Length266 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Military / General
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Political Freedom
Political Science / Security (National & International)
Social Science / Sociology / General
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
  
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