Security Privatization and Global Security Assemblages Abrahamsen, Rita author Williams, Michael C. author text articles 2011 eng born digital pp. 171-180 Brown Journal of World Affairs 1080-0786 18 no. 1 no. 171 180 The article highlights security privatization and its impact on particular global security assemblages and suggests that security privatization is part of a broader re-articulation of the state that reworks the distinctions between the public and the private, as well as the global and the local. Global security assemblages are described as complex hybrid structures of actors, knowledge, technologies and others, across national boundaries but which operate in national settings. Rather than a process of outside forces eroding a territorially distinct interior, globalization was tackled as a process of realignment within the state. 10.26300/21pf-ts62