ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the implications of the changes for the governance of security. It discusses the evolution of the institutions of security and associated linguistic developments and the debates that underlie them. The chapter turns to the issues of governance that has been central to these debates. It explains how major transformations in the provision of security, and especially the allocation between states and the private sector for doing so, have occurred across the world during the last thirty years or so. Another term of crucial relevance to the relationship between security privatization and democracy is 'globalization'. The chapter explores the way in which developments within the governance of security have been shaping, and reshaping, established policing terrains–a reshaping that has made it increasingly difficult for established political institutions to ensure that policing remains democratically accountable. It concludes by considering the challenges that contemporary forms of security provision present for the realization of the democratic governance of security.
