Counter-Piracy, Communities of Practice and New Security Alignments
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Counter-Piracy, Communities of Practice and New Security Alignments. / Bueger, Christian.
In: Journal of Regional Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013, p. 49-62.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Counter-Piracy, Communities of Practice and New Security Alignments
AU - Bueger, Christian
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Contemporary global and regional security relations are no longer predominantly characterized by formal organizational structures, but increasingly made up of informal and often diffused problem centered alignments. Following the hypothesis that new security problems produce new forms of security alignment, I scrutinize in this paper how one problem, maritime piracy, is addressed by different forms of alignments. I outline a perspective of how to study the range of new forms of security alignments which have risen to counter piracy. Investigating the United Nations contact group, the military mechanism SHADE and two regional agreements I argue, firstly, that these new forms of security alignments are glued together by notions (or better boundary objects) of best practices, information sharing and training. Rather than formal institutions, the alignments are best understood as organized around practical activities which revolve around projects of creating a common repertoire of knowledge, a joint epistemic infrastructure and shared practices. Secondly, the cases indicate that new alignments produce new (cognitive) regions which can be observed through the spatial practices underlying them.
AB - Contemporary global and regional security relations are no longer predominantly characterized by formal organizational structures, but increasingly made up of informal and often diffused problem centered alignments. Following the hypothesis that new security problems produce new forms of security alignment, I scrutinize in this paper how one problem, maritime piracy, is addressed by different forms of alignments. I outline a perspective of how to study the range of new forms of security alignments which have risen to counter piracy. Investigating the United Nations contact group, the military mechanism SHADE and two regional agreements I argue, firstly, that these new forms of security alignments are glued together by notions (or better boundary objects) of best practices, information sharing and training. Rather than formal institutions, the alignments are best understood as organized around practical activities which revolve around projects of creating a common repertoire of knowledge, a joint epistemic infrastructure and shared practices. Secondly, the cases indicate that new alignments produce new (cognitive) regions which can be observed through the spatial practices underlying them.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Security Alignments
KW - maritime piracy
KW - maritime security
KW - security communities
KW - epistemic infrastructures
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 49
EP - 62
JO - Journal of Regional Security
JF - Journal of Regional Security
SN - 2217-995X
IS - 1
ER -
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