Rens van Munster
Danish Institute for International Studies
40 Papers
284 Citations
Rens van Munster is an academic researcher from Danish Institute for International Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Nuclear weapon. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 38 publications. Previous affiliations of Rens van Munster include Centre for Journalism (University of Southern Denmark) & University of Southern Denmark.
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Papers
Governing Terrorism Through Risk: Taking Precautions, (un)Knowing the Future:
Claudia Aradau,Rens van Munster +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the risk society thesis problematically views risk within a macro-sociological narrative of modernity, and that governing terrorism through risk involves a permanent adjustment of traditional forms of risk management in light of the double infinity of catastrophic consequences and the incalculability of the risk of terrorism.
Security, technologies of risk, and the political: Guest editors' introduction
TL;DR: In the post-Cold War security environment, there has been an explosion of risks, including pandemics to organized crime, global warming, failed states, terrorism, poverty and nuclear proliferation.
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Exceptionalism and the ‘War On Terror’ Criminology Meets International Relations
Claudia Aradau,Rens van Munster +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the exception makes possible different insights about the dialectics between law and crime by unpacking the constitutive role of the politics of fear, the importance of the 'international' and the transformed relationship to the future.
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Private Security Contractors in the Debate about Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality:
Anna Leander,Rens van Munster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the presence of private security contractors in the evolving and buoyant discussion surrounding Darfur and pointed out that neo-liberal governmentality has bolstered the expert status of security contractors.
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The Time/Space of Preparedness: Anticipating the “Next Terrorist Attack”
Claudia Aradau,Rens van Munster +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the co-constitution of temporality and spatiality in such practices is examined and the main argument is that practices of preparedness enact a withdrawal of time, where the temporal uncertainty of the future event is displaced on the management of space.
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