Rethinking security: from projecting power to preventing problems

Dr Chris Langley, SGR, examines how two factors - the embrace of corporate partners by science and technology university departments and the erosion of distinctions between the military and the police - have contributed to disturbing security trends in the UK and elsewhere. The root causes of insecurity meanwhile go unaddressed.

Article published on openDemocracy website, 19 December 2013
 

The article can be read on the openDemocracy website at:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/chris-langley/rethinking-security-from-projecting-power-to-preventing-problems

Some of the analysis in the article is based on the recent SGR report:
Offensive Insecurity: The role of science and technology in UK security strategies