Security expertise [electronic resource] : practice, power, responsibility / edited by Trine Villumsen Berling and Christian Bueger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Security expertise : an introduction / Trine Villumsen Berling and Christian Bueger -- 2. What is expertise? Technical knowledge and political judgement / Robert Evans -- 3. What is security expertise? From the sociology of professions to the analysis of networks of expertise / Gil Eyal and Grace Pok -- 4. In defence of security / Thomas Osborne -- 5. The history and social structure of security studies as a practico-academic field / Ole Wver -- 6. Think tanks in security and international affairs / James G. McGann -- 7. Producing knowledge for the military : experts and amateurs in the national security community / Judith Reppy -- 8. Contesting human security expertise : technical practices in reconfiguring international security / Saul Halfon -- 9. Problematic knowledge : how 'terrorism' resists expertise / Lisa Stampnitzky -- 10. On wolves, squirrels and pandas : the characters of strategy experts / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen -- 11. On how to be a collective intellectual : critical terrorism studies and the countering of hegemonic discourse / Richard Jackson -- 12. Ethics, expertise and human terrain / Hugh Gusterson -- 13. Away from the heart of darkness : transparency and regulating the relationships between security experts and security sectors / Piki Ish-Shalom.