Poltorakov, A. Yu. Privatization of Violence: Social and Political Context

Abstract: Review: Crossing tendencies of intensifying relations between the government and business in the sphere of security, on one hand, and growing expenses of security (protection and etc.) are important social and political phenomena creating premises for a completely new security subject, ‘State Corporation’. Special features of that security subject is a less traditional differentiation between the ‘powers’ of state and business in the sphere of national (social and political) security, on one hand, and in the sphere of private (social and economical) security, on the other hand. It is also quite possible that a very specific ‘ideology of violence’ would occur and settle in as an immanent feature of social and political activity. The phenomenon of ‘non-violent opposition’ in so called ‘color revolutions’ is the opposite side of that ideology since it is related to the idea of using violence by the government in the first place.

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