ABSTRACT
Although the individual articles assembled in this special issue emphasize different dimensions and deal with diverse empirical cases, the contributions are united by the attempt to offer a critical, but friendly assessment of the potentials and pitfalls of security governance. As a whole, they tackle a set of questions relating to conceptual, empirical, and normative challenges facing security governance, which, so far, have not been addressed sufficiently by previous research. The individual articles take up one or several of the challenges mentioned below.
