securitization

Democracy’s Missing Infrastructure: Why Europe Keeps Reaching for the Security Toolkit

Plural policing during health emergencies and natural disasters

The presence of multiple providers of policing during an existential crisis can accelerate the pluralisation of policing and exacerbate trends of securitisation. How can multi-actor policing activities be managed in crisis situations to counterbalance this likely drift to excessive securitisation?

Mayors put to the test. Dutch mayors in local security networks

The ever growing trend of securitizing local issues has fostered an expansion of Dutch mayor’s formal positions, as well as new actions and roles in daily governance.