From Neighbourhood to National Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 172-195
Author(s):  
Martin Innes ◽  
Colin Roberts ◽  
Trudy Lowe ◽  
Helen Innes
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
National Security ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Empirical Case Studies ◽  
Community Intelligence

This chapter explores how developments in Neighbourhood Policing articulate with other aspects of the police function. In particular, it examines the ways in which Neighbourhood Policing type approaches have influenced attempts to tackle serious and organized crime, and the evolution of the Prevent strand of the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism programme. The channels of communication afforded by the Neighbourhood Policing model afford a unique opportunity to access and acquire community intelligence, which might otherwise be difficult for police to acquire by more traditional or covert methods. Informed by this focus, the chapter goes on to explore the concept of the co-production of social control, utilizing empirical case studies to illustrate how a more ‘blended policing’ approach from neighbourhood officers can lend itself to supporting interventions directed towards broader risks and threats.

Towards a Right to Sustainable Security of Person in Times of Terrorism? Assessing Possibilities and Limitations Through a Critical Evaluation of Citizenship Stripping and Non-Repatriation Policies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Paulussen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
National Security ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
Foreign Fighters ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract On the basis of the case studies of deprivation of nationality and the non-repatriation and possible prosecution of foreign fighters and their families, this article will argue that some counter-terrorism measures, adopted under the justification of protecting national security, will not make these countries, and thus also the individuals under its jurisdiction, safer. Hence, it is wondered whether the notion of national security is both spatially and temporally still in sync with the hyperconnected world in which we live and in which terrorists operate—and whether it is not better to move to the adoption of the broader concept of sustainable security. This article will then turn to the question of whether ordinary citizens (or NGOs litigating on their behalf) could use their existing right to security of person to block those inefficient measures and if not, whether they should be able to operationalise the concept of sustainable security in the human rights context. The article will assert that while the general concept of sustainable security can certainly help at the policy level in encouraging governments to move away from mere national security thinking and thus assist in adopting counter-terrorism measures that provide true, durable security, the situation is different at the level of human rights. The existing right to security of person arguably does not go that far to be able to block the inefficient counter-terrorism measures as discussed in this article and an extension of this right, to a right to sustainable security of person, should not be pursued.

Narrative Misdirection? UK Strategic Communication for Afghanistan and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Cawkwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
The Uk

Britain’s war in Afghanistan – specifically its latter stages, where the UK’s role and casualties sustained in the conflict rose dramatically – coincided with the institutional emergence of Ministry of Defence-led ‘Strategic Communication’. This article examines the circumstances through which domestic strategic communication developed within the UK state and the manner in which the ‘narratives’ supporting Britain’s role in Afghanistan were altered, streamlined and ‘securitised’. I argue that securitising the Afghanistan narrative was undertaken with the intention of misdirecting an increasingly sceptical UK public from the failure of certain aspects of UK counter-insurgency strategy – specifically its counter-narcotics and stabilisation efforts – by focusing on counter-terrorism, and of avoiding difficult questions about the UK’s transnational foreign and defence policy outlook vis-à-vis the United States by asserting that Afghanistan was primarily a ‘national security’ issue. I conclude this article by arguing that the UK’s domestic strategic communication approach of emphasising ‘national security interests’ may have created the conditions for institutionalised confusion by reinforcing a narrow, self-interested narrative of Britain’s role in the world that runs counter to its ongoing, ‘transnationalised’ commitments to collective security through the United States and NATO.

scholarly journals The Dilemma of Lawlessness: Organized Crime, Violence, Prosperity, and Security Along Guatemala’s Borders

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Emily M. Alford
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Narcotics Trafficking ◽  
Mass Murders ◽  
Illicit Trafficking

This book presents the reader with both facts and conclusions drawn from three case studies. Authors Ralph Espach, Daniel Haering, Javier Meléndez Quiñonez, and Miguel Castillo Giron focus on the lack of security along Guatemala’s borders and the serious narcotics trafficking, execution-style mass murders, and other severe public security issues that have developed as a result. This research looks closely at the effects of criminal organizations and illicit trafficking within the three particular border municipalities of Guatemala—Sayaxché, Gualán, and Malacatán. The three areas are compared demographically and economically, and through which a deeper analysis is developed on creating better border control through the behaviors of the local communities themselves.

scholarly journals Consequences of organized crime for national security

Vojno delo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (7) ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanimir Djukic
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Organized Crime
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