Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September … 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in … 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide security market will continue to exceed the growth rate of world GDP …

Intuitively, we might expect that security would be broadly conceived in the same way across the world. And yet even … the way the security of the state is understood is quite different from the predominant ‘Western’ model in some parts … of Asia in particular. Indeed, the constituent parts of broadly conceived ‘security governance’ reveal surprising and …