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Søby Kristensen Kristian
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4 January 2006
A short bibliography on the the of Critical Infrastructure Protection
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3 January 2006
Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) plays an increasingly central role in the strategies to reduce societal vulnerability and to mitigate the conceived threat from terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic. Simultaneously the practice of CIP questions our theoretical understanding of a range of concepts as it introduces new technologies and new knowledge to the practice of security, not easily caught from the perspective of IR and traditional security studies.
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9 September 2005
In the time after September 11th 2001 a lot of effort, both political and scholarly, has gone into debating and deliberating various aspects of how to deal with and understand these new threats posed to Western societies. In fact, the processes associated with and highlighted in the ‘war on terror’ have shown new political practices that question the meaning and function of many core political concepts. Inside/outside, war/peace, civil/military, normal/exceptional are but a few of the political distinctions put in play by these new practices.