Probing the links between political economy and non-traditional security: Themes, approaches and instruments

Abstract

In recent decades, the security agenda for states and international organisations has expanded to include a range of 'non-traditional', transnational security issues. Globalisation is often seen as a key driver for the emergence or intensification of these problems, but, surprisingly, little sustained scholarly effort has been made to examine the link between responses to the new security agenda and the changing political economy. This special issue, which this article introduces, aims to overcome this significant gap. In particular, it focuses on three key i Final version of this paper published in International Politics 52 (4), pp. 371-388 2 themes: the broad relationship between security and the political economy; what is being secured in the name of security, and how this has changed; and how things are being secured -what modes of governance have emerged to manage security problems. In all of these areas, the contributions point to the crucial role of the state in translating shifting stateeconomy relations to new security definitions and practices.

Common knowledge? Business intellectuals, BRIC and the production of knowledge across global finance and international relations

“…While often rhetorically said to be interconnected, IR and GF have largely been addressed by states, international institutions and the academy as differentiated circuits of actors, research questions, publications and objects (Boy et al, 2011;de Goede 2010;Hameiri and Jones, 2015;Kessler, 2011;Kristensen, 2012;Mastanduno, 1998;Moisio 2018;Neocleous, 2006). In recent years, however, various scholars have outlined how the knowledge and practices of IR and GF often cut across this neat binary line of separation between the two domains.…”

“…And indeed, a vibrant agenda has emerged that points to the way that the confluence of formal institutional actors and academic theoreticians of global finance is constitutively-impactful on how IR produces knowledge about international politics and security (e.g. Boy et al 2011;Hameiri and Jones 2015;Amicelle 2011;de Goede 2010).…”

Energy Security of Territories as a Factor of Sustainable Development Under the Conditions of Economic Changes

“…The influence of political, economic, ecological and spiritual crises, the lack of resources and ideas, and the arbitrary nature of aggressive processes necessitate a revision of existing approaches to the issue of ensuring economic security of the country (Hameiri and Jones, 2015;Kupatadze and Kizilöz, 2016). Since the regions are the locomotives of the economy of any state, of course they feel this influence (Kosai and Unesaki, 2016).…”

Security Governance in East Asia and China’s Response to COVID-19

“…With regard to the governance of NTS, very few examine security governance in the way it has been conceptualized in the literature. There are studies that capture certain changes happening in the region’s security governance, such as the criticality of political and economic transformations in effective governance and the proliferation of security actors (Hameiri and Jones 2015 ; Caballero-Anthony 2018 ; Freedman and Murphy 2018 ). In this article, we develop the discussion on NTS governance in East Asia further by analyzing the extent to which the space of security governance can be opened for actors beyond the state and the circumstances that facilitate/compel the opening.…”