BCSP analyst pens book on security privatization
News Source: Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Serbia
The Čigoja Press publishing house has recently published the book Privatizacija bezbednosti u slabim državama, slučaj Srbija (The Privatization of Security in Weak States: Case of Serbia), written by Predrag Petrović, Research Coordinator at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).
The author aims to answer the question as to why private security in Serbia has not been regulated by law for more than 17 years, despite the fact that between 40,000 and 60,000 (armed) individuals are employed in the sector.
Petrović builds his arguments from the theory of defective democracy and the premise of the existence of so-called “reserved domains.” The book draws on a collection of empirical data gathered during years of Petrović’s research into this phenomenon in Serbia.
The book explores and analyzes actors, their interactions, and the interests for preventing the normative regulation of the private security sector in Serbia. It shows how these interests and actors are not only related to economic interests and covert information gathering, but also to criminal activity.
